The History and Antiquities of the City of York,: Containing, I. The government of the city during the times of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans; with the present government by a lord mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs. II. The antient and present navigation of the River Ouse. III. The liberties, franchises, charters, gifts, donations, and privileges granted to the community of the city. IV. The bye-laws, antient customs, fairs and markets of the city. V. The guilds, crafts, trades, and fraternitiesA. Ward; and sold by W. Tesseyman, J. Todd, H. Sotheran, T. Wilson, N. Frobisher and R. Spence, booksellers., 1785 - York (England) |
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Page 295 - The day-room for men is only twenty four feet by eight: in it are three cells: in another place nine cells: and three in another. The cells are in general about seven and a half feet by six and a half, and eight and a half high; close and dark; having only either a hole over the door about four inches by eight, or some perforations in the door of about an inch diameter: not any of them to the open air...
Page 57 - Also that all manner of [ ], thieves, dice-players, and all other unthrifty folk be wellcome to the town, whether they come late or early, at the reverence of the high feast of Yoole, till the twelve days be passed.
Page 253 - I observe t\\ejieurs de Us in the royal arms are no,t confined to the number three; which puts it out of doubt that they were placed there before Henry the fifth's time; who was the first that gave that particular number in his bearing...
Page 120 - Holy Trinity in York, and so going in procession to and into the Cathedral Church of the same ; and afterwards to the hospital of St. Leonard, in York, leaving the aforesaid sacrament in that place. Preceded by a vast number of lighted torches, and a great multitude of priests in their proper habits, and followed by the mayor and citizens, with a prodigious crowd of the populace attending.
Page 167 - ... that they are not commensurate to the largeness and necessity of the kingdom, which appears by the deplorable want of a learned and faithful ministry in very many congregations, which, for want of scholars or choice of scholars, are betrayed to the ignorance of illiterate men, through whom that sad proverb is fulfilled upon us : — " The blind lead the blind, and both fall into the ditch.
Page 11 - Bartholomew Fair, in the said place and county, on the other party : the one and thirtieth day of October, 1614, and in the twelfth year of the reign of our sovereign lord, JAMES, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith ; and of Scotland the seven and fortieth.
Page 311 - I have no doubt, was intended to be lighted at night, for a sea mark. The church of All Saints at York has a lantern very much resembling this of Boston ; " and tradition tells us that antiently a large lamp hung in it, which was lighted in the night time, as a mark for travellers to aim at in their passage, over the immense forest of Galtree, to this city. There is still the hook of the pulley on which the lamp hung in the steeple.
Page 8 - Know ye that we have granted and by this our Charter have confirmed for us and our heirs to the...
Page 104 - ... they (abominating the treachery of the two fryers to their eternal infamy), desired that, on St. Thomas's Day for ever, they might have a fryer of the priory of St. Peter's to ride through the city on horseback, with his face to the horse's tayle, and that in his hand, instead of a bridle, he should have a rope, and in the other a shoulder of mutton, with one cake hanging on his back and another on his breast, with his face painted like a Jew; and...
Page 221 - From all regal taxation for eVer. Earl Alan gave us a town which is in the suburbs of the city, near the church, upon the Same conditions* This happened anno...