EBORACVM. York.

We went upon a Roman way till we came to the river Nidd, half-way to York, where moor begins. At Ackham we saw the hill called Severs hill, with much reason thought to be that on which was performed the consecration of Severus the emperor; and, no doubt, with great magnificence: it is a large round hill, and the highest ground near York, about two miles distance from it: there seemed to be a long barrow west of it. York is a very large city, but old, and narrow streets. I saw the multangular tower in the city-wall, just by St. Mary’s abbey, which was built by the Romans, as to the bottom part: the upper has been added; it was originally of twelve sides: the stones are of squared faces, four Roman inches high; the inside, rubble, and excessive hard mortar: it seems within side as if a seat had been carried round it: three of the sides are gone: it is on the west side of the city. I went to see the two statues on St. Laurence church-wall, thought to be Roman; but they are not so: they are monumental tomb-stones of founders of churches laid just above ground somewhere, and removed hither: they are very ancient; I believe, about king John’s time. [TAB. XCVIII.]The cathedral here is a noble building; but, except that the side-walks are somewhat broader, and are carried on the west side of the transepts, it is exceeded in every thing by Lincoln minster; as, for instance, in the manner of approach on the west, in the front for breadth and height, in the stone roof, the towers, the cloisters, and in general the magnificence of the whole: the chapter-house here is only vaulted with wainscot; that at Lincoln with stone. The river Ouse divides the city in two. The walls on the west side are in good repair, and may be walked round. All the walls here are low, but built upon a huge agger of earth; I suppose, the Roman manner. There are two figures of Ulphus’s horn in the cathedral. In the west end of the steeple of St. Martin’s church, Micklegate, is the remnant of a fine funeral monument, Roman; a man and his wife, with their son, a child, in their habits: near it a piece of flower-work, perhaps belonging to the frize of some magnificent building. There are twenty four parish-churches here. The bridge over the Ouse, commonly magnified to strangers, is a very ordinary thing, and exceeded by most of the bridges in the county.

91·2⁠^d. The great Temple & Grove of the Druids at Trerdrew in Anglesey ________.

W. Stukeley delin.

I. Harris fecit

92·2⁠^d.

Stukeley delin.

A Celtic Temple at Winterburn 22. Aug. 1723.
6 pa. diam 10. stones of a very hard sort full of flints, the tallest to W. 8 f. h. the N. 7 broad 6 high.

93·2⁠^d. Kromlechen

Near Bondruse

Stukeley delin.

I. Harris fecit

94·2⁠^d. Celtic Sepultures

Eglwys Glominog on the top of Arennig Vaur in Llanykil Parish Merionydshire.
Karnedhan Hengum above a quarter of a Mile South East of Dynas Gortyn, both in the Parish of Lhan Aber Meir.
Coeten Arthur.

95·2⁠^d. CELTIC Sepulture

On the Roadside between Rwnahyrin & Clochau Cantyre
Karn Maur

Stukeley delin.

I. Harris fecit.

96·2⁠^d. Brass Celts

97·2⁠^d.

Stukeley delin.

Toms Sculp.

The Court of Malling Abby 17. Oct. 1724.

98·2⁠^d.

A
Chori Eccl: Cath: Ebor:
Arcus Australis.

B
Cornu Ulphi

G. V.^dr. Gucht Sculp.

99·2⁠^d.

E. Kirkall Sculp.

The Prospect of Kirkleys Abby, where Robin Hood dyed from the Footway leading to Heartishead Church, at a quarter of a mile distance. A. The New Hall. B. The Gatehouse of the Nunnery. C. The Trees among which Robin Hood was buryed. D. The way up the Hill where this was drawn. E. Bradley Wood. F. Almondbury hill. G. Castle Field.
Drawn by D^r. Johnston among his Yorkshire Antiquitys. P. 54. of the Drawings.

100·2⁠^d. RELIGIOVS

Remnant of Ramsey Abby Gatehouse 1713.

Tower on y^e Moor near Tatershal Linc^r.

Capella ruinosa Spiritus apud Basingstroke.
Henrico Torkington de Stukely mag. Ar. Tabula Votiva.

Of Severus thus writes Herodian III. Antoninus, and Geta his brother, governed the empire jointly: they sailed from Britain, and went to Rome with their father’s reliques; for his body being burnt, they carried thither his ashes, put into an alabaster urn with gums and sweets, that they might be reposed in the sacred monuments of the princes.

There were two reasons why the Roman Emperors residing here chose to make York their imperial seat. 1. Because of its vicinity to the Scotch frontiers, where they were perpetually upon their guard upon the Wall against their incursions. 2. Because it is in a fruitful country, upon a navigable river; but more because they could bring hither corn from the southern countries of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, &c. all the way by water carriage, from the river Ouse or Nen at Peterborough, up the Cardike, the Witham to Lincoln, the Fossdike (undoubtedly a work of theirs) the Trent, across the Humber, up the Ouse to York; a particular not yet taken notice of. The old arch in the bar leading to Micklegate is said to be Roman.