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‘Remarkable’ discoveries under Leicester market as dig ends

According to a book about medieval Leicester, written by historian Charles Billson, one of the prisoners interned in the dungeon in 1533 wrote: “Master Mayor sent me forthwith to a most vile prison called the Gaynsborrow, then offered to put gives and fetters upon my legs and so to lye upon hard planks without bed or straw and without company or comfort.”


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