Now! Then! Henry VI liberates York from Yorkshire

11 February 1448: Henry VI liberates York from Yorkshire

Francis Drake. 1736. Eboracum. London: William Bowyer. Get it:

Excerpt

A copy of the record of the letters patent granted by King Henry VI the 11th day of February in the 27th year of his reign to the mayor and citizens of the city of York was produced and read; reciting that the said city, the suburbs or precincts thereof, was then a county by itself, divided and separated from the county of York, and called the county of the city of York; and that the mayor and citizens of the said city were bailiffs of and in the hundred or wapentake of Ainsty; and granting to them and their successors, that the said hundred or wapentake with the appurtenances, should be annexed and united to the county of the said city, and be parcel thereof; and that the said city, suburbs and precinct, hundred or wapentake, and each of them, with their appurtenances, and every thing in them and each of them contained, except the castle of York, the towers, fosses, and ditches to the said castle belonging, be the county of the said city, separated and divided from the county of York; saving always to the church and the archbishop, dean and chapter thereof, and every other community temporal and spiritual, and all and singular other persons, all kinds of franchises, privileges, rights, commodities and customs to them or any of them of right belonging.

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Too sleepy to look this up, but I haven’t heard of it before. Is 1448 the 27th year of his reign? Bedtime.

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Original

And a copy of the record of the letters patent granted by king Henry VI. the 11th day of February in the twenty seventh year of his reign to the mayor and citizens of the city of York was produced and read; reciting that the said city, the suburbs or precincts thereof, was then a county by itself, divided and separated from the county of York, and called the county of the city of York; and that the mayor and citizens of the said city were bayliffs of and in the hundred or wapontake of Aynsty; and granting to them and their successors, that the said hundred or wapontake with the appurtenances, should be annexed and united to the county of the said city, and be parcel thereof; and that the said city, suburbs and precinct, hundred or wapontake, and each of them, with their appurtenances, and every thing in them and each of them contained, except the castle of York, the towers, fosses, and ditches to the said castle belonging, be the county of the said city, separated and divided from the county of York; saving always to the church and the archbishop, dean and chapter thereof, and every other community temporal and spiritual, and all and singular other persons, all kinds of franchises, privileges, rights, commodities and customs to them or any of them of right belonging.

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