Birks Wm. Swinegate Harrison Wm. High Jubbergate Heselwood Thomas, Bootham row Mason & Branton, (& coffee roasters) Mason John, Castlegate Ransley Wm. Lendal Scawin Wm. Low Petergate Taylor James, 1, New Bridge street street Thread Manufacturers. Fletcher and Scarr, North street Scarr John, (patent coloured and shoé Timber and Raff Merchants. Tobacco and Snuff Mfrs. & Dealers. Tobacco Pipe Makers. Toy Manufacturers & Warehouses. Marshall Martha, 6, Coney street Turners in Wood, Ivory, &c.. Morritt Wm. (toys) Feasegute Umbrella and Parasol Manufrs. Metcalfe Mirabella (and lobby cloths) Varnisher. Stokes Elizabeth, Bootham row Watchmakers. See Clock and Watch Makers & Repairers. Gillian Thos. old wharf, Skeldergate Wheelwrights. See also Carpenters. Wire Workers. Varley Mary, Fossgate Woollen Drapers and Tailors. See also Tailors. Atkinson James, Coppergate Hudson Thomas, Stonegate Rhodes Robert, (steward of the race course) Blake street Sanderson John, Pavement Woolstaplers. Ambler Abraham, Peaseholm green Johnson Joseph, Hungate Harker James, (agricultural imple- Allison H. B. Fossgate ments) Marygate Lowe John, Gillygate Noble Geo. (thrashing machine mkr. Fearby John, Dunning's yd. Fossgate White and Red Lead Manufactory. Lee Benjamin, Goodramgate Lister Christopher, (scale beam mkr.) Buckle Marmaduke, St. Saviour row North street North W. G. Feasegate Ruler John, Foss bridge, Walmgate Smith Joseph, Low Petergate Worsted Manufacturers. Cocker Robert, 15, New bridge st. AINSTY OF YORK. THE AINSTY OR COUNTY OF THE In Drake's time the City and Aisty of CITY OF YORK, is a district to the West of York were accounted equal to one-eighth York, under the jurisdiction of the Lord part of the West Riding, and one-twentieth Mayor and Magistrates of that city, to which of the whole county. The extraordinary it was annexed in the twenty-seventh of increase of population and wealth in the llenry VI. Prior to this time it was a wapen- West Riding within the last hundred years take or hundred of the West Riding. The has, however, destroyed these proportions, Ainsty or Ancity is supposed by Drake to and it appears, from the census of 1821, have been derived from the old northern word that the City and Ainsiy of York do not anent signifying a hundred contiguous, now, in point of population, exceed oneopposite, or near to the city. The whole twenty-fifth part of the West Riding, and district or wapentake was anciently a forest, one thirty-fifth part of the whole county.-but it was dis-forested by the charters of In all assessinents by act of parliament the Richard I. and John. The circuit of the City of York is taxed at three-fifths, and Ainsty is computed at thirty-two miles, the Ainsty at two-fifths. Till the year 1735, according to the following calculation : a doubt existed whether the freeholders of From the confluence of the rivers the Ainsty had a right of suffrage at the election for members of parliament for this Nidd and Ouse, at Nuu-Moukton, county, (on the ground that it formed part to that of the Wharf and Ouse, near Nun-Appleton 12 miles and parcel of a separate wunty) and though their votes were received by the Sheriff, From the junction of the Warf and they were always taken with a query prefixed Ouse to Thorp-Arch.............11 From Thorp-Arch to Wilsthorp, on to their names; but after the contest between the Nidd ............ Sir Miles Stapleton, Bart. and Sir Rowland ......... 6 Winn, Bart. the matter was brought to issue From Wilsthorp, along the line of before the House of Commons, when the the Nidd, to its confluence with the Ouse ....................... 3 House, on the 9th of March, 1735, decided, 32 “That the pursons whose freeholds lie with “in that part of the County of the City of The Ainsty comprises thirty-five towns and “ York, which is commonly called the villages, of which the following is the Ainsty, have a right to vote for Knights enumeration : " of the Shire of the County of York. The Acaster Malbis, Holgate, following is a brief description of the places Acaster Selby, Hutton Wansley within the Ainsty,taken in alphabetical order, Acomb, Knapton, with the directory of each place subjoined: Angram, Long Marston, Appleton Roebuck, Middlethorpe, ACASTER MALBIS, (P.) situated Askham Bryan, Mour Monkton, on the Ouse; 4 miles S. of York. Here is a Askham Richard, Nether Poppleton, good School House, endowed with the proBickerton, Oxtou, ducts of some lands, under the patronage of Bilbrough, Rufforth, certain trystees, who have the appointment Bilton, Steeton, of fourteen poor children, as proper objects Bishopthorpe, Tadcaster, to the mid- to receive instruction free of cost. Mr. Bolton Percy, dle of the bridge, George Cowper, is the master, and Messrs Catterton, Thorp-Arch, William Cundell, John Kettlewell, and John Colton, Tockwith, Oates, feoflecs. The church is an ancient Coproanthorpe Upper Poppleton structure, of which the Rev. Thomas Barker, Dringhouses, Walton, is perpetual curate. The town derives its Healaught, Wighill, name from the family of the Malby's, whicla Hescay, Wilsthorp. flourished here for some centuries after le Exclusive of several hamlets. conquest Population, 291. Cooper Wm. parish clerk Croft John, tailor Croft Matthew, grocer, &c. Darling Samuel, tailor and victualler, Dawson Richard, constable The Humber Steam Packet to Gains ACASTER SELBY, in the parish of Stillingfleet; 8 miles S. of York. This village is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Ouse, on which river the Steam Packets, and others, pass and repass to Selby, Gainsbro' and Hull, tending considerably to enliven the scene. Here is a Free School, with an endowment of 74. 7s. per annum, arising out of the fee-farm rents, aided also by voluntary subscriptions of the inhabitants of the township. This place was formerly part of the possession of the Abbot of Selby, and from thence its name is derived. Population, 188, on a dry and elevated situation, a number of families choose it for their place of sepulchre. Here is also a newly erected Methodist chapel, likewise a School, built by voluntary subscriptions of the inhabitants, and vested in certain trustees, upon Dr. Bell's plan of education. Population, 733. Anderson Robert, Esq. Barstow Elizabeth, gentlewoman Nettleton Edward, gentleman Ramsey Misses M. and S. Asylum Keepers, Benson Wm. Blacksmiths, Ellis Wm. junr. Forrest Thos. Black- Kirk Richard Carrier, Geo. Hick to York every Sat. ACOMB, (P.) in the liberty of St. Peter's; 2 miles W. of York. The church is an ancient small structure, and being seated Lakeland Robert Gardeners, Lazenby Wm. Hardy Wm. Joiners, &c. Benson Robert Hields John Shoemakers, Briskham Geo. Brownrigg Robert Tailors, Bateman Wm. Stead Wm. Hotels, Inns and Taverns, Black Swan, John Benson Grey Horse, William Mason ANGRAM, in the parish of Long Parker Susannah APPLETON ROEBUCK, in the parish of Bolton Percy; 8 miles SW. of York. Here is a neat brick-built chapel, belonging to the Methodists of the Old Connexion, erected about three years ago; likewise a good National School house, for sixty boys and fifty girls, built by subscription in 1817, patronized by the Rev. Archdeacon Markham, and supported by voluntary contributions. The situation is very salubrious, and there is living here at present an old man of the name of John Lamb, aged 94 years. Population, 585. Mollett Ann, gentlewoman Stead James Vairey Richard Grocers, &c. Richardson Wm. Backhouse Wm. Bat Pudding grn.Brown Francis Appleton (Nun), in the parish of Bolton Percy; 6 miles SE. of Tadcaster, was formerly a Priory, for Nuns of the Cistercian Order; founded in the reign of King Stephen, by Alice de St. Quintin; and among the injunctions prescribed to the Nuns of this house in the year 1489, are the following:"That the cloister doors be shut up in winter at seven, and in summer at eight at night, and the keys delivered to the prioress. That the prioress and all the sisters lodge nightly in the dorter, unless sick or diseased. That none of the sisters use the ale-house, or the waterside, where the course of strangers daily resort. That none of the sisters have their service of meat and drink to their chambers, but keep the frater and the hall, unless sick. That no sister bring in any man, religious or secular, into their chambers or any secret place, day or night, &c. That the prioress license no sister to go a pilgrimage, or visit their friends, without great cause, and then to have a companion. That the convent grant no corodies or liveries of bread, or ale, or other victual, to any person, without special licence. That they take in no perhendinauncers or sojourners, unless children, or old persons, &c." ASKHAM BRYAN, (P.) 4 miles S. On the 5th of December, 1540, this Monas- W. of York. The church is an ancient tery was surrendered, and afterwards became structure, the living is a vicarage, the a ruin. Thomas Lord Fairfax built a hand-present incumbent Rev. R. S. Thompsome brick house upon the site; which, with the estate, was subsequently purchased by Mr. Alderman Milner, a merchant in Leeds; and is now the seat of his great-grandson Sir W. M. Milner, Bart, Simpson Wm. keeper of ferry and maltster son; here is also a Methodist chapel, |