Monasticon Eboracense And The Ecclesiastical History Of Yorkshire

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Download or read book Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire. Containing an Account of the First Introduction and Progress of Christianity in that Diocese, Untill the End of William the Conqueror's Reign. Also the Description of the Situation, Fabric, Times of Endowments of All of All Churches, Collegiate, Conventual, Parochial, Or of Peculiar Jurisdiction ; and of Other Religious Places in that District and to Whole 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 Each Church, Chapel, &c. from the Earliest Account, Down to the Present Time. Collected from the Best Historians and Ancient Manuscripts in the Bodleyan, Cottonian, and Other Libraries in London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Several Cathedrals ; as Also from Other Public Records, Registers and Chartularies in the Tower and Other Offices in London, and in the Archiepiscopal, Episcopal, and Deans and Chapters Offices in the Cathedrals of York, Durham and Chester, and in Private Hands, and from Parochial Registers with Above Two Thousand Copies of Original Charters and Deeds Never Yet Published. Adorned with Copper-plates, Representing the Ichonographies of Some of Their Churches, Abbies, Ruins, &c. and Other Curious Things Worth of Observation. To which is Added, a Scheme and Proposals, in Orer 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 Toward Assisting Such a Society, According to the Above Proposals written by and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: