Not to be confused with the Bell in Humberstone Gate, this Bell precedes that, but exact location in the Swinesmarket is not yet known.
Borough records of 1458 show hostelry the Bell paid the Chantry of Corpus Christi, a rent of ten shillings per annum.
Mary Bateson recorded the Bell, Swinesmarket in 1500.
1587, at the Nottingham Justices Court, a Richard Wright of Cambridge was charged with riding off with someone else’s horse after spending the night at the Bell in Leicester.
1605, the rent of ten shillings per annum was still being paid this time by Thomas Nurse, a butcher, who was in occupation at the tenement called the Bell.
1725, the Bell was recorded in recognizance orders.