either of these days fall York-Whit-Monday, July on a Sunday, the fair is held the Saturday before, horses, and horned cattle; Note, July 5 and Nov. 12, are pleasure fairs, for toys, &c. Wetherby-Holy Thursday, Aug. 5, Oct. 10, Thurs. before November 22, statute, and horses, sheep, and hogs. Wigtift-July 22, pedlary.! 10, Aug. 12, Nov. 22, and principal markets, every other Thursday in the year, sheep; the half year show for horses; the summer shew on Monday in York race week; the winter shew on Monday Dec. 17, the first whole week before Christmas, horses. LIST OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL Towards the Illustration of the History and THE COUNTY OF YORK. Mr. Gough very justly observes that "One cannot approach the borders of this county without paying tribute to the memory of of that indefatigable collector of its antiquities, Roger Dodsworth, who undertook and executed a work, which, to the antiquaries of the present age, would have been the stone of Tydides. One hundred and twenty two volumes of his own writing, besides original MSS. which he had obtained from several hands, making altogether one hundred and sixty-two volumes folio; now lodged in that grand repository of our antient monuments the Bodleian Library (at Oxford), are lasting memorials what this county owes to him, as the two volumes of the Monasticon (which though published under his and Dugdale's names conjointly, were both collected and written totally by him), will immortalize that extensive industry which has laid thewhole kingdom under obligation." Before Dodsworth's time Thomas Talbot, clerk of the records in the Tower, about 1580, and probably of the family of the Talbots of Bashall, in Craven, made great collections for the history of this county. Large collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county of York were made by John Hopkinson, of Lofthouse, near Wakefield, Esq. clerk of the peace for the West Riding of the county, and written by himself in a bold and legible hand. At the beginning of the last century Richard Gascoigne, of Bramhain Biggin, Esq. a gentleman of ancient descent in this county, made great collections of its antiquities. He was an intimate friend of Camden's, who calls him an accomplished antiquary. Fifteen volumes of his MSS, in quarto came into Vincent's possesion, possession, and were given with the rest of his valuable library, by Ralph Shelden, of Beoley, Esq. 1684, to the Herald's Office, where they now remain, bearing the number from Vincent 400 to 415 inclusive. In the last century the Rev. Mr. John Brooke, of Fieldbead, rector of High-Hoyland, in this county, made large collections for the history of Yorkshire. Mr. Nathaniel Johnson, physician at Pontefract, made large collections from Dodsworth's papers and other quarters, and communicated many particulars to Bishop Gibson, who was also assisted by Mr. Thoresby, and in the East Riding by Mr. John Burnsall, of Hull. Mr. Ducarel informed the Society of Antiquaries, 1756, that Dr. Johnston's M SS. amounted only to 97 volumes, and some quarto bundles, though in the Cat. MSS. August, they are a hundred and thirty-five; the rest were carried off by an amanuensis employed to copy such as related to the Darcy family, which together with the originals were burnt by an accidental fire in Lord Holderness's house. Mr. Frank above mentioned, of Pontefract, informed the Society of Antiquaries, 1775, of an unno ticed Domesday for Yorkshire in the hands of the Marquis of Rockingham, into whose family it came from William Earl of Stratford, for whom it was transcribed 1666. The Rev. Samual Marsden, rector of Lythe, near Whitby, had a very fair copy of which he gave the Society of Antiquaries an account, 1760, with his observations on the state of the country north of the Humber at the time of the survey, and the modern names of the places in it. The fullest information on the monastical article may be found in "Monasticon Eboracense: and the "Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire. Containing an account of the first introduction and progress of christianity in that diocese, until the end of William the Conqueror's reign. Also the description of the situation, situation, fabric, times of the endowment of all the churches, collegiate, conventual parochial, or of peculiar jurisdiction: and of other religious places in that district, and to whose memory they were dedicated. Together with an account of such monuments and inscriptions as are worthy of notice, as well as of the rise, progress, establishment, privileges, and suppression of each order, religious or military, fixed therein; with the catalogues of all the abbots, and other superiors of those places, and of all the patrons, rectors, vicars, cantarists &c. of cach church, chapel, &c. from the earliest account, down to the present time. Collected from the best historians, and ancient MSS. &c. &c. with above 200 copies of original charters and deeds, never yet published. Adorned with copperplates, representing the ichnographies of some of their churches, abbies, ruins, &c. and other curious things worthy of observation. To which is added a scheme and proposals, in order to form a society for compiling a complete civil and natural history of the ancient and present state of Yorkshire: with a chorographical and topographical description thereof; and for a set of accurate maps, taken from actual surveys. To this is subjoined a short historical account of the parish of Hemingbrough, as a specimen, shewing what materials the author has collected towards assisting such a society according to the above proposals. By John Burton, M. D. York, 1758. fol. The first volume only was published. The late Cuthbert Constable, of Burton-Constable, in Holderness, Esq. spared no expence to procure whatever would illustrate any branch of the history of Yorkshire. "The ancient and modern History of the famous city of York; and in a particular manner of its magnificent cathedral, commonly called-York Minister; as also an account of St. Mary's Abbey, and other ancient religious houses and churches; the places whereon they stood, what orders belonged to them, and the remains : remains of those ancient buildings that are yet to be seen with a description of those churches now in use; of their curiously painted windows, the inscriptions carefully collected; and many of them translated; the lives of the archbishops of this see; the governments of the northern parts under the Romans, especially by the emperors Severus and Constantius, who both died in this city of the kings of England and other illustrious persons who have honoured York with their presence; an account of the mayors and bailiffs, lordmayors and sheriffs (with several remarkable transactions not published before) from different M S S. down to the third year of the reign of King George II. To which is added a description of the most noted towns in Yorkshire, with the ancient buildings that have been therein, alphabetically digested for the delight of the reader, not only by the assistance of ancient writers, but from the observations of several ingenious persons in the present age. The whole diligently collected by T. G. (Thomas Gent) 1730, 12mo. His compendious History of England and Rome, York, 1741, 2 vols. 12mo. has additions about York, Pontefract, &c. The best account of the city of York is Mr. Francis Drake's "Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the city of York, from it original to the present time. Together with the history of the cathedral church, and the lives of the archbishops of that see, from the first introduction of christianity into the northern parts of this island, to the present state and condition of that magnificent fabric. Collected from authentic MSS. public records, ancient chronicles. and modern historians; and illustrated with copper plates. In two books, Lond. 1736. fol. Besides the assistance derived from Johnston, Widrington, Gale, Torr, Mr. Drake acknowledges some heraldical from those of Henry Keepe, (mentioned before at Westminster, I. 762), who began an account of York, about 1684, and с 3 |