Walter of Bintrey, to Leicester "for the lord's business for the repair of ways in Humberstonegate and Belgravegate." The making of the causeway is not mentioned directly in the Mayor's accounts for that year, but they are endorsed in an old hand "Humberstonegate, Great Cawsey there erected."
In the Ward division of 1484, the fifth Ward included the whole of Humberstonegate ; but in the division of 1557 the point in Humberstonegate at which the Ward commenced was more strictly defined. It began "from the bridge by the Antelope." The Antelope was a piece of ground, apparently belonging once to the College of the Newarke, for in 1493 the Guild of Corpus Christi were paying an acknowledgment of 3d. to the New College "for the outshoot " (or drainage) "of the water of the tenement late in the holding of Robert Couper going out through the Antelope." A bridge there is mentioned in 1551; and in 1566 there was "work at the Antelope for paving and laying of the same bridge." In 1595 "the cawsie beyond Antelope Bridge" was repaired.
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