The Right Hon. THOMAS SMITH, LORD MAVOR, (2d Time.) (Whose Office will expire on the 3d of February, 1824.) Robert Sinclair, Esq. Recorder. John Pemberton Heywood, and W. S. Nicholl, Esqrs. City Counsel. Those marked thus † have served the office of Lord Mayor twice. Charles Liddell, Esq. Whose offices expire on the 2d of September, 1823. Gentlemen who have served the office of Sheriff, called the Twenty-four. CHAMBERLAINS-Whose offices expire the 3d of February, 1824. Mr. Peter Armistead Mr. George Bell Mr. John Rigg Mr. George Jennings Mr. Richard Burdekin Walmgate Ward. Mr. Thomas Bewlay, Foreman of the Commons Mr. Matthew Browne Mr. Joseph Davis Mr. Wm. Cartwright Mr. Thomas Sanderson Mr. James Day Mr. Wm. Blanchard Mr. Wm. Evers Monk Ward. Mr. John Hurwood Mr. Richard Kilner Mr. Wm. Ingram Mr. Wm. Scawin COMMON COUNCILMEN. Mr. Wm. Dalton Mr. Emanuel Siddall Mr. John Benson Mr. Robert Gibson Mr. John Lawton Mr. Richard Hornby Bootham Ward. Mr. George Burnill Mr. Wm. Hudson Mr. Richard Williamson Mr. John Walker Mr. James Barber Mr. Richard Brown Mr. Wm. Cattell Mr. George Ellis Mr. Joseph Marshall Mr. Wm. Robinson Mr. Robert Pulleyn Mr. Wm. Hargrove Micklegate Ward. Mr. Wm. Stead Mr. Thomas Peacock Mr. Francis Calvert Mr. Michael Varvill Mr. Christopher Watson Mr. Henry Steward Mr. John Simpson Prothonotary, John Seymour, Esq. -City Steward, Mr. Peter Atkinson. Chaplain, Rev. William Flower, sen. Four Officers at Mace, viz. Thomas Kimber, Francis Burr, John Sanderson, and Wm. Bell. Chief Constable for the City, Mr. William Baynes, Petergate. Chief Constable for Ainsty, Mr. Thos. Beal, Dring Houses, & Mr. Geo. Steward, Blossom st. Porter to Lord Mayor, Geo. Lund; Police Officer, Wm. Pardoe; City Informer, Jas. Pardoe. The Coroners for the City and Ainsty, are Messrs. Samuel Cowling, Davygate, and Robert Ellison, Castlegate; and for the Liberty of St. Peter's, Mr. John Plowman, of Haxby, and Mr. John Richardson, of Colliergate, York. in front by a double tier of windows. There are here eight valuable portraits in excellent preservation : of his present Majesty, present The Mayor of York, by ancient prescription, assumes the title of Lord, which peculiar honour, as we have already seen, was conferred on this Chief Magistrate, by Rich-ed by him to the Corporation; King William ard II. in 1389. The same sovereign, in The residence of the Lord Mayor is the Mansion-house, a stately edifice, built in the year 1756, and which stands at the north end of Coney street, near Lendal, and occupies the site of the ancient chapel of the Guild of St. Christopher. The revenue of the Lord Mayor was formerly derived chiefly from the toll of corn coming to the market, but that toll in 1784, was liberally relinquished by the corporation, and this mansion is the scene of his hospitalities. The stateroom, where the chief magistrate gives his entertainments, is 49 feet 6 inches in length, and 27 feet 9 inches in breadth, and is lighted III.; George II.; the late Marquis of Rockingham; Sir John Lister Kaye, M. P. and Lord Mayor, in 1737; Lord Bingley, M. P. and Lord Mayor in 1757, (when George Lane Fox, Esq.); Sir Wm. M. Milner, M. P. and Lord Mayor in 1797 and 1798; Lord Dundas, Lord Mayor in 1811, (when the Hon. Lawrence Dundas, M. P.) and in 1821, when Lord Dundas, and the only English Peer ever Lord Mayor of York. It is worthy of remark, that York had the honour to set the Corporation of London the example of erecting a Mansion House for their Lord Mayor. The Guild-hall is situated behind the Mansion-house, and was built in the year 1446. In this fine Gothic Hall, which is ninety-six feet long, by forty-three feet wide, the Assizes for the city are held, and it is then formed into two courts, the Crown Court at the end of the Hall, and the Nisi Prius Court near the entrance. The elections for members of parliament are also held here, and it may be proper in this place to mention, that the city of York is at present represented in parliament by Marmaduke Wyvill and Robert Chaloner, Esqrs. who, like the corporation of the city they represent, are both of the whig party. Three times a week, namely, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, the Lord Mayor, and at least one alderman, sit at the Guild-hall, for the administration of justice; and the business of the Quarter Sessions for the city is also transacted in this place. At the end of this hall are several rooms for the grand and petit juries, one of which is called the Inner Room, in which the County Court, for the recovery of debts in the County, not exceeding Five Pounds, consolidated with the Sheriff's Turn Court, and the Court of Common Pleas, is held weekly, usually on the Tuesday. The Council Chambers is a building of modern erection, adjoining the Guild-hall. When the old Council Chambers of the city upon Ouse-Bridge were taken down in 1810, thesechamberswere built adjoining: the Inner Room, & the Lower House, namely, the Com mon Council, hold their deliberations in one of them, while the Upper House, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Recorder, City Council, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and the Gentlemen of the Twenty-four assemble in the Upper Chamber. Amongst its other public institutions York enjoys the advantage of an excellent Subscription Library, containing about ten thousand volumes in the various branches of science and literature. This institution was commenced in the year 1794, but it was not till the year 1811, that the present Library Room, which is very eligibly situated in St. Helen's Square, was built. The number of members at present amounts to four hundred and seventy-seven; the mode of admission is by ballot, and the terms are ten guineas entrance, and an annual subscripscription of twenty-six shillings, paid in advance. Mr. Joseph Shepherd is the Librarian. There are in York some other Libraries, Subscription and Circulating, the principal of which is, the Select Subscription Library, in Lady Peckett's yard, Pavement. On the ground floor, under the York Subscription Library, in St. Helen's Square, there is a Subscription News Room, handsomely fitted up, and furnished with the London and country newspapers. Subscribers are admitted by ballot, and the members of the room have each the privilege of introducing a friend, not resident in York, for one month, on registering his name in a book kept for that purpose. The annual subscription is one guinea, and the admission fee ten shillings and sixpence. There are also two other Subscription News Rooms, one at the York Tavern, and the other, called the York Club Room, at Etridge's Hotel. The Cavalry Barracks, erected in 1796, are situated at a distance of about a mile S. W. of the city, on the Fulford road. The cost of these erections, with the twelve acres of ground appropriated to the purpose, has been little short of 30,000l. and the accommodation they afford is for three field officers, five captains, nine subalterns, four quarter-masters, two hundred and forty noncommissioned officers and privates, and 266 horses. The parade ground is very extensive, and in front of the range appropriated to the officers is a large grass plot, for the accommodation of the numerous and fashjonable company who frequently attend to hear the fine martial band which plays upon the parade. Mr. Anthony Lefroy is the bar rack master. York has produced several characters eminent in history, and a still larger number eminent in the ages in which they lived. Amongst the former of these may be mentioned CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, the first Christian Emperor; FLACCUS ALBANUS, the pupil of Bede and the mentor of Charlemagne; and WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland, and son of the gallant Siward. Amongst the latter we find the names of ROBERT FLOWER, the hermit of Knaresborough, usually called St. Robert, born in 1190; JOHN LE ROMAINE, the thirty-eighth Archbishop of York, and the natural son of John Romaine, a priest and treasurer of the cathedral; JOHN WALDBY, and ROBERT his brother, two eminent scholars, who flourished about the middle of the fourteenth century, the former of whom was the forty-seventh archbishop of this province; JOHN ERGHOм, a friar Eremite; and JOHN BATE, a friar Carmelite; both profound expositors of the holy scriptures, and authors of celebrity in the fifteenth century; VALENTINE FREES and his WIFE, rendered memorable by having, according to Fox, died for religion at the stake in the year 1531, and of whom Fuller says, that they were, according to his recollection, the only man and his wife ever thus married together in martyrdom; EDWARD FREES, the brother of Valentine, born also at York, who, for having heretically painted some passages of scripture on the borders of several pieces of cloth, was committed to prison by John Stoaksley, Lord Bishop of London, and there, according to Fox, was fed with manchet made of sawdust, and kept in prison till the flesh of his wrists grew over his irons, his reason having in the mean time so far forsaken him that when brought for examination before his persecutor, he said, My Lord is a good man!" GEORGE TANKERFIELD, another martyr, was born in York: Sir Thomas Widdrington says he was a cook in London, and was, by Bishop Bonner, antichrist's great cook, roasted and burnt to death.THOMAS MORTON, the son of a mercer in York, born in the Pavement, in the year 1564, rose by his merit successively to the bishopricks of Chester, Lichfield, and Coventry, and lastly to Durham: when he was a parish priest, and rector of Marston, the plague raged in York with so much fury that a number of infected persons were sent out of the city to HobMoor, where tents were erected for their accommodation, on which occasion this intrepid disciple of his divine master visited them daily, and administered alike to their spiritual wants and to their temporal necessities.* HENRY SWINBURNE, * The writer of this prelate's life says, that he was school fellow, at York, with Guy Faux, the famous popish incendiary, who is said to have been born at Bishop thorp, and educated in this city. an eminent doctor of civil law, was born at his elder with quaint preaching and subtle York about the middle of the sixteenth disputes. He rose successively from the century, and educated at the Free Grammar School in this city. As his contemporary and countryman, Gilpin, was called the apostle of the north, so Swinburne was styled the northern advocate the one being famous for his learning in divinity, and the other in the civil law. StR THOMAS HERBERT, son of Mr. Thomas Herbert, merchant and alderman of York, was born in this city in 1606, and educated here till he was admitted a commoner of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1621. Having completed his studies, he travelled for some years through Africa and Asia, under the patronage of William Earl of Pembroke, his kinsman.On his return home he waited on the Earl, and was invited to dine with him the next day, but the Earl dying suddenly that very night his hopes of preferment from that quarter were blasted, and he again left England to visit various parts of Europe. Upon finishing his travels he settled in his native country, and in the time of the civil wars adhered to the cause of the Parliament. By the persuasion of Philip Earl of Pembroke, he became one of the commissioners to treat with the King's officers for the surrender of Oxford to the Parliamentary army. Subsequently he was put upon the King as one of his menial servants, along with others, in the place of several of his own servants; while in this situation he became a convert to the royal cause, and continued with his Majesty till he was brought to the block. Charles II. immediately upon the restoration, rewarded his faithful service to his father in the two last years of his life by creating him a baronet in 1660, which honour he enjoyed for upwards of twenty years, and died at his house in York on the first of March, 1681.CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT, a profound scholar, stiled Vir eruditissimus, was born at York, and is known to the learned world for his Annotations on Genesis and Exodus. JOHN EARLE was born at York in 1601, and admitted of Merton College, Oxford, in 1620. His younger years, says Antony Wood, his biographer, were adorned with oratory, poetry, and witty fancies, and Deanery of Westminster to the Bishoprick of Worcester, and ultimately to that of London; and dying at Oxford, in 1665, was buried near the high altar in Merton College Church, in that city. MARMADUKE FOTHERGILL, born in 1652, in the house called Percy's Inn, in the parish of St. Dyon's, Walmgate, was a divine of great learning and piety, and in ecclesiastical antiquity stood almost unrivalled. By his last will he left a fine collection of books as a library to the parish of Shipwith, of which he had been minister, on condition that the parishioners should build a proper room for them at their own cost; but this charge they parsimoniously refused to incur, and the library was, by his widow, presented to the Dean and Chapter of York, to swell the Minster collection. FRANCIS DRAKE, the venerable and learned historiau of York, was the son of the Rev. Francis Drake, rector of Hemsworth and vicar of Pontefract. Though not born in this city, he settled here in early life, and practised as a surgeon with considerable reputation.-Having married Mary, the youngest daughter of John Woodyeare, Esq. of Crook-hill, he devoted himself principally to his literary pursuits, and in the year 1736 published his Eboracum, a work which will serve to confer immortality on the history and antiquities of that city, and which will, in its turn, hand down his name to the latest posterity. In this brief but faithful history of ancient and modern York, the contrast between the imperial city the residence of Emperors and of Kings, and the decayed capital of a northern county, forces itself strongly upon the mind, and serves to exhibit the vicissitudes to which the affairs of places, as well as of persons, are subject. But York-though shorn of some of its brightest beams-though three times rased to the ground by invaders, * in remote periods -and though deprived of its commerce by Hull, and of its manufactures by Leeds, in more modern times, is still an interesting and venerable city, of which it may be said, in the lines of Sir Thomas Widdrington: York's not so great as Old York was of yore, * First by the Saxons, second by the Danes, and third by the Normans. An Alphabetical List OF THE STREETS, SQUARES, COURTS, LANES, &c. &c. IN THE CITY OF YORK. Albion row, North street, Bar walls Aldwark, St. Andrewgate Anderson's court, Stonegate Carr's lane, Skeldergate |