THE HISTORY and ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY of YORK, From its ORIGIN to the PRESENT TIMES ILLUSTRATED WITH TWENTY-TWO COPPER-PLATES. VOLUME III. CONTAINING, I. An hiftorical Account of the § ty has had the Honour to II. Exact Catalogues of the give Birth. IV. A Survey of the Ainfty, V. An alphabetical Lift of the Mayors, Lord Mayors, Bai-VI. The A&ts for cleansing and III. A fhort Account of the enlightening the Streets-for YORK: Printed by A. WARD; and fold by W. TESSÉYMAN, M.DCC.LXXXV. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY of YORK. An Hiftorical Account of the Earls and Dukes of York. An exact Lift of all the High Sheriffs of the County from 1069: The City's Reprefentatives in Parliament from 1295: A Catalogue of the Mayors, Bailiffs, and Lord Mayors from about the Year 1140; and of the Sheriffs from 1397: With a fhort Account of the Lives of fome great and famous Men, to whom this City has had the Honour to give Birth T HE Reader may obferve, in the Annals of this Work, that, before the Conqueft, the Comites, or Earls of Northumberland, were alfo Governors of the City of York; which, as it had been, during the Hep tarchy, the Capital and chief Refidence of the Northumbrian Kings, fo it continued to be the Seat of the Earls of that Place. These prefided over the County and City of York, as well as over the County of Northumberland, &c. till the Confeffor, in the Year 1056, after the Death of Siward, gave the Earldom of North umberland to Tofty, Brother to Earl Harold, and Son to Goodwin Earl of Kent *. We have mentioned Morchar to be the laft Earl of Northumberland before the Conqueft, VOL. III. A *Comitatum Eboraci Tostio fratri comitis Haraldi, &c. Vide Ingulfum edit. antiq. f. 510. n. 40. |