the amount, £655. 10s. 11d., was laid out in the purchase of a field on the west side of Pighill Lane, which was conveyed to the Corporation as trustees.

St. Mary's Infant School, erected in 1842, in Lairgate, is a neat brick building. The British School, for girls only, is held in a building at the top of Wood Lane, erected for a Quakers' Chapel; and the Wesleyan Day School, in Walkergate, for both sexes, was opened in 1844.

HOSPITALS OR ALMSHOUSES.-Fox's Hospital, in Minster Moorgate, was founded in 1636, by Mr. Thwaits Fox, an Alderman of Beverley. He gave his house and the appurtenances, by deed of feoffment, together with a rent charge of £10. a year, towards providing an asylum for four destitute aged widows, who should be natives of Beverley, and have been resident in the town, with an unblemished reputation, for twenty years prior to their appointment to the benefit of the charity; and have actually received a weekly allowance from the parish for, at least, the two preceding years. The widows thus qualified and appointed were to enjoy the privilege for life, except they should forfeit it by being convicted of drunkenness, scolding, felony, or any other notorious offence; in which case it is directed that expulsion shall immediately ensue. The trustees of this charity are also possessed of other funds, the gifts of individuals. The hospital consists of four small tenements; and the four widows receive each three shillings a week, and some coals at Christmas.

Charles Warton's Hospital, Minster Moorgate.-This hospital was founded by the gentleman whose name it bears, who, by will, dated 1712, reciting that his father, Michael Warton, had devised to him a messuage and four cottages in Minster Moorgate, and £1,000., for the purpose of erecting and endowing an hospital where the cottages stood; he, the said Charles Warton, declared that he had erected an hospital for six poor widows, and bequeathed for their support, and for other charitable purposes, a farm at Killingwoldgraves, in the parish of Bishop Burton, comprising 201 acres. Besides the rent of this farm, the trustees are also possessed of personal property to a considerable extent. The hospital has been enlarged, and there are now in it seventeen widows, four of whom receive each 5s. a week, and the others 4s., except the nurse, whose stipend is 8s. per week. Each receives a gown, and 5s. to purchase a pair of stays, every year, as well as plenty of coals. In accordance with the will of the testator, the trustees apprentice several boys every year.

Sir Michael Warton's Hospital stands near the last named institution, and was founded as an addition thereto, by Sir Michael Warton, who, in 1774, bequeathed £4,000. to be a perpetual fund for repairing the Minster; £1,000,

to augment the hospital founded by his father and brother, and £500. to the Blue Coat School, already noticed. With the exception of £250. expended in rebuilding the hospital, the remainder of the £1,000. was invested, with the other funds given by Sir Michael, in the purchase of the Dalby estate, in Lincolnshire; and out of the rents of the same each of the six poor widows receive 4s. weekly, about 15s. per ann., in lieu of a new gown, and a quantity of coals.

Routh's Hospital, in Keldgate, was built in 1749, pursuant to the will of Mrs. Ann Routh, of Beverley, widow, who, in 1721, bequeathed her estates in Yorkshire to provide for the erection of an almshouse, and the maintenance of twelve poor old widows of St. John's and St. Martin's parishes, "frequenting the church." The original endowment, according to a tablet over the entrance to the hospital, was, at the time of the foundation of the hospital, worth about £100. a year, but now the annual rents of the estate amount to several hundreds. In the year 1788 the income of the charity having considerably increased, the hospital was enlarged, so as to accommodate twenty almspeople. Previous to the year 1802 the widows received but 2s. a week; but upon their petitioning the Court of Chancery, in that year, for an increase in their weekly allowance, a scheme for extending the charity to thirty-two widows (the present number) at 5s. per week, was sanctioned by that Court. The hospital was consequently enlarged; and it is now a long brick building, two stories high, containing thirty-two rooms, each furnished with an iron bedstead. Two of the inmates, who act as nurses, now receive 5s. per week, and the other thirty 4s. each, with a new gown every year, and plenty of coals. Each inmate is furnished with a Bible, prayer book, and silver badge; the latter bearing this inscription:-" Ann Routh, died March 25th, 1722."

Tymperon's Hospital, Walkergate, was founded and endowed for six poor persons, by William Tymperon, of Beverley, who died in 1729. The property left for the support of this charity was invested in an estate at Aldborough, in Holderness, which now yields an annual rent of £337. Besides which the trustees receive the interest of £600., invested on mortgage; and the dividends of £946. 18s. 5d. Consols-making a total of £430. 18s. 3d. per ann. The number of poor persons has been increased to ten; five of whom are appointed by the Vicar of St. Mary's; two by the incumbent of the Minster; and three by the Vicar of Aldborough; these gentlemen being the trustees of the charity. Seven of them reside in the hospital at Beverley, and the other three at Aldborough. Each of the ten poor persons receive 6s. per week, with coals, and clothes of the value of £2. per ann. The sum

of £150. per ann. is received from the funds of this charity towards the support of the several National and Sunday Schools in Beverley.

Corporation Almshouses.-These consist of four very small cottages in Lairgate, called Bedehouses; and seventeen cottages in the same street, called Les Maisons De Dieu, the whole of which are the freehold property of the Corporation, and are let rent-free to poor old deserving individuals. John Foster, in 1818, left £100. to the Corporation, the interest to be given to the inmates of the Bedehouses; and in 1779 Ann Nelson gave £60., as an addition to £40. given by Mrs. Monson, for the same purpose. The inmates of nine of the seventeen Maison Dieus belong to the Minster parish, and have no allowance at present; the remaining eight, belonging to St. Mary's parish, receive each 10s. at Christmas, out of the charities of that parish.

Besides the Charities already noticed, there are several other benefactions to the poor of Beverley, which are chiefly under the control of the Charitable Trustees; and one of the most important of them (Metcalf's Charity) is now the subject of a Chancery suit.

A Lying-in Charity was established in 1812, and is chiefly supported by subscription.

The Beverley Poor Law Union comprehends thirty-six parishes or townships, embracing an area of 118 square miles. The Union Workhouse, in Minster Moorgate, is the old poor house, built in 1727, for the use of the town and liberties of Beverley. It formerly had accommodation for only 100 paupers, but was enlarged under the New Poor Law Act, and will now hold about 160. The average number of inmates, for the past year, was 65. Workhouse Master-Mr. John Hudson; Chaplain-Rev. W. T. Sandys; Clerk to the Board of Guardians-Mr. Henry Ion Earle.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Titles.-The Earldom of Beverley is a branch of the Dukedom of Northumberland. In 1790 Algernon Percy, second Baron Louvaine of Alnwick, and second son of Hugh Percy, third Duke of Northumberland, was created Earl of Beverley. George Percy, the present Earl of Beverley, is son to the first Earl, and succeeded his father in 1830. He was a Lord of the Treasury, from May, 1804, to February, 1806, and was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, from 1842 to 1846. His town residence is 8, Portman Square; Seat-Louvaine, Yorkshire.

Beverley formerly gave the title of Marquis to the Douglas family, one of whom, James Douglas, Duke of Queensberry in Scotland, was created by Queen Anne, in 1708, Duke of Dover, Marquis of Beverley, and Baron Ripon. His son and successor died without issue in 1778, when all his English titles became extinct.

Mineral Spring.-On Swinemoor common is a kind of spa, which, according to Warburton, was dedicated to St. John of Beverley, and is impregnated with steel. Gibson, the annotator of Camden, says that it was formerly reputed "to be a great dryer; and, if taken inwardly, and washed in, dries scorbutic scurfs and all sorts of scabs; and also very much helps the King's evil." Mr. Bursell tells us "that it is a spa three yards wide; and, if taken inwardly, is a great dryer." At present it has no celebrity for any such virtues; and is used only as a bath possessing the property of extreme coldness. EMINENT MEN.-Alured of Beverley, the great historian of antiquity, and biographer of St. John, was born here in 1109, and died about 1166. After receiving a liberal education from the Canons of Beverley, he proceeded to the University of Cambridge, and then returned to his native town, where he became a priest, one of the Canons, and Treasurer of the church of St. John of Beverley. He bore the reputation of a sound divine, and an able philosopher. During the period of his residence at Beverley, he wrote his work, now in the Harleian collection of the British Museum, on "The Liberties of the Church of St. John of Beverley, with the privileges granted by the Apostolic See, or by Bishops, translated out of Saxon into Latin." His learning and piety afterwards elevated him to the Abbacy of Rivaulx, where he compiled his Annals from Brutus to Henry 1. Mr. Hearne published an edition of Alured's Annals of the British History, at Oxford, in 1716. Alured, or as his name is variously spelt, Alredus, Alfredus, and Aluredus, has not been improperly styled our English Florus; his plan and execution very much resembling that of the Roman historian.

John Alcock, successively Bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Ely, was born in Beverley in the 15th century, and educated at the seminary of that town; from whence he went to Cambridge, where he took the degree of L.L.D. In 1461 he was collated to the church of St. Margaret, London; in 1462 he was appointed Master of the Rolls; and in 1470 he was made a Privy Counsellor, and one of the Ambassadors to the King of Castile. In 1471 he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester; and in 1472 constituted Lord High Chancellor of England. These and other offices he filled with great credit and ability. He was a prelate of singular learning and piety, and was not only a considerable writer, but an excellent architect, which occasioned his being Comptroller of the royal works and buildings under Henry VII. He died at his Castle at Wisbeach, in 1500, and was buried in a sumptuous sepulchral chapel, which he built for himself, at the east end of the north aisle of the choir of Ely Cathedral, and which is a noble specimen of his skill in architecture. Bishop Alcock founded Jesus College, Cambridge.

He also founded the Grammar School at Hull, (See page 146); and built and endowed a chapel on the south side of the church of that place, in which his parents were buried. (See page 129).

John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was born at Beverley, in 1459. He was educated at the grammar school there, and afterwards admitted in Michael House, Cambridge, since incorporated into Trinity College; and he became a Fellow of his house in 1491. In 1495 he was Proctor of the University; and in the same year he took Holy Orders, and was elected Master of Michael House. He was now selected by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and the mother of Henry VII., as her chaplain and confessor; and it was by his counsel she undertook the magnificent foundations of Christ's and St. John's Colleges, and established several other institutions for learning. In 1501 he took his degree of D.D., and was chosen Chancellor of the University; and in the following year he was appointed by charter the Lady Margaret's first Divinity Professor in Cambridge. In 1504 he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester, and he never would exchange this bishopric, though then the smallest in England, for another. He used to say that "he would not exchange his little old wife (looking upon the church as his spouse) for a wealthier." The Reformation having been commenced by Luther, Bishop Fisher entered the lists as a zealous partisan for the old-established faith. He opposed the progress of the new doctrines, both from the pulpit and from the press; and it has been asserted, that the famous Defence of the Seven Sacraments, which procured for Henry VIII. the style and title of Defender of the Faith, was the production of his pen. He afterwards adhered firmly to the Queen's cause and the Pope's supremacy; and although he had previously been in great favour with Henry VIII., yet the affair of the divorce, in 1527, brought him into trouble, and in the end proved his ruin. He was committed to the tower in 1534; deprived of all his revenues; his bishopric was declared void; and he was treated with excessive rigour. His person was outraged, he was stripped even of his clothes, and allowed nothing but filthy rags to cover his nakedness, that his mind might be subdued by indignities offered to his body. In this miserable situation, at the age of 77 years, lay Dr. Fisher, the elegant scholar and learned divine. In May, 1535, Pope Paul III. rewarded his constancy by creating him a Cardinal; an act which roused the King to summary vengeance. "Well," said Henry, in a great passion, "let the Pope send him a hat when he will, Mother of 'God, he shall wear it on his shoulders then, for I will leave him never a head to set it on." Rich, the Solicitor-General, was employed to visit the unfortunate prelate in prison, and under pretence of condolence and com