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
Earls and Dukes of York.
II. Exact Catalogues of the
High Sheriffs of the County
of York-the City's Repre-
fentatives in Parliament-
Mayors, Lord Mayors, Fai-
liffs, Sheriffs, and Recorders
of York.

JII. A fhort Account of the
Lives of fome great and fa-
mous Men to whom the Ci-

ty has had the Honour to
give Birth.

IV. A Survey of the Ainfty,
V. An alphabetical Lift of the
or County of the City.
Monumental Inscriptions in
the Churches of York.
VI. The A&ts for cleanfing and
enlightening the Streets-for
preventing Abuses in weigh-
ing and packing of Butter-
and for improving the Navi-
§gation of the River Oufe.

Printed by A. WARD; and fold by W. TESSEYMAN,
J.TODD, H. SOTHERAN, T. WILSON, N. FROBISHER,
and R. SPENCE, Bookfellers.

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THE

HISTORY

AND

ANTIQUITIES

OF THЕ

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

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HE Reader may obferve, in the Annals of this Work, that, before the Conqueft, the Comites, or Earls of Northumberland, were also Governors of the City of York which, as it had been, during the Heptarchy, 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 Northumberlamd, &c. till the Confeffor, in the Year 1056, after the Death of Siward, gave the Earldom of Northumberland to Tofty, Brother to Earl Harold, and Son to Goodwin Earl of Kent *. We have mentioned Morcharto be the last Earl of Northumberland before the ConVOL. III. quest,

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* Comitatum Eboraci Toftio fratri comitis Haraldi, &c. Vide Ingulfum edit, antiq. f. 510. n. 40.