WALKS THROUGH THE CITY OF YORK. BY ROBERT DAVIES, F.S.A. EDITED BY HIS WIDOW. BIBLIOTHECA JAN 81 BODLEIAND London: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED, 195, PICADILLY, W. INTRODUCTION. WHEN in compliance with the wishes of the few surviving friends of our early days, who had listened with pleasure to my dear husband's "Walks through the City of York," I consented some time ago, with the kind assistance of my valued friend Canon Raine, and my dear Husband's nephew, Robert Hardisty Skaife, to collect and arrange them, I hoped to have found them as they were then read, but I regret to be obliged to confess that I have searched diligently but in vain for them. The "Walks" which I now give to my friends are only the rough copies from which those "Walks" were taken. I must trust therefore to the kind indulgence of those who then so appreciated his labours to pardon and overlook all my deficiencies. I have now every reason to believe that the "Walks" read at the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical |