LEICESTER-ABBEY, a liberty (extra-parochial),
in the western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE,
county of LEICESTER., 1 mile (N.) from Leicester, containing
15 inhabitants. An abbey of Black canons, in
honour of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
was founded here, in 1143, by Robert Bossu, Earl of
Leicester, the revenue of which, at the dissolution,
was estimated at £ 1002. 0. 4., and the site granted
by Edward VI. to the Marquis of Northampton. There
are slight remains of the conventual buildings, the
most remarkable portion of which is an outer wall, exhibiting
on its face an inscription wrought in bricks of
different colours.