1782   JAMES BISHOP, (Innholder).

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Son of James Bishop of Grimston, co. Leic., by his wife,

Elizabeth Normanton, and descended from the Bishops, a family long resident at the adjoining parish of Asfordby. He appears to have been born in 1723, was admitted a free burgess of Leic. as a "stranger" 29 July 1761, paying the usual fine of the period of £20, elected a councillor in 1764, chamberlain 1773 and later appointed an alderman. For many years he was the landlord of the once famous hostelry and coaching house known as the Three Crowns, which formerly stood in Horsefair Street near the Granby Street corner. He married but does not appear to have left any issue.

AId. James Bishop died 18 August 1803 in his seventy~ ninth year and was buried at St. Margaret's. M.I. there to him and his wife Hannah, who died in 1798. Will, dated 23 February 1802, a long record with a codicil, was proved in the Prebendal Court of St. Margaret's 20 October 1803. Most of his wealth passed to his nephew, William Bishop, of whom later, (see No. 369).