Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Not far from York I went about half a mile out of the way to take a view of Bishopsthorpe, the archbishop’s palace, which is about a mile or two distant from York, placed sweetly upon the bankside of the river Ouse. It is the poorest and least capacious house which I have found in England belonging to any bishopric: a very little, poor hall, and no fair rooms in the whole house. In the chapel I observed the table, representing the altar, placed in the lower [west] end of the chapel. A stone building which seems to have been an old chapel, converted into a dove-house which has two tunnels. The church, which is the parish church, called Bishopsthorpe church, is the least and poorest church I have met withal in England. Here is only a curate maintained to say service. The bishop’s cellar here well furnished, with 32 hogsheads of good strong beer, and 8 pipes of the same. We tasted of it.

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Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

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[1635] Junii 11. Wee came from Handf; and tooke horse about 8 in the morneing, and came to Wakefield about 7; wee baited att Bostockes att Woodhead where wee paid two-pence a pint for ale and 3s. 8d. pro victualls; and att Wakefield att the Bull, where wee lodged, wee paid 5s. for supper and breakefast. Itt is an honest, and excellent house: Here next morning I gave my bay mare garlyck and butter for hir cold butt itt wrought nothing with hir; nor did the drench, which I usually give, which I gave hir att Yorke next morneing; butt by the way I observed a connie-warren walled about with stone containeing about one or 2 acres of land; and nott farre from Yorke I went about half a mile out of the way to take a view of Bishopps-thorpe, the arch-bishopps palace which is about a mile or two distant from Yorke, placed sweetly uppon the banckside of the river Owes: Itt is the poorest and least capacious house, which I have found in Engl: belonging to any bishopricke: a verye little poore hall, and noe faire roomes in the whole house. In the chapple I observed the table, representing the altar, placed in the lower end of the chapple 3: A stone building which seemes to have been, an old chapple, converted into a dovehouse which hath two tunnells:

The church, which is the pareish church, called Bishops-thorpe church, is the least and poorest church I have mett withall in England ; here is onely a, curate maintained to say service.

The bishopps cellar here well furnished with 32 hoggsheades of good stronge beere and 8 pipes of the same; wee tasted of itt.

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• Neile/Neale, Richard (1562-1640) (2), churchman, bishop successively of six English dioceses, including the Archdiocese of York (1631 until his death); involved in the last burning at the stake for heresy in England, that of the Arian Edward Wightman in 1612 ·
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