. . . "The volume of its trade in such commodities as hides, woolfells, cloth and foodstuffs is difficult to estimate in our period, since neither guild merchant rolls nor borough accounts exist, beyond the occasional chance survival, between 1380 and 1465.1Originally one of the five ???burghs??? of the old Danelaw, Leicester later became the caput of the honour of the same name, which from the mid 13th" .