(5) To his friend, Mr. E. Haworth Earle, and to his colleagues, Mr. C. Bazell and Mr. J. V. Pugh, for reading the proofs of the entire book and correcting many errors that would otherwise have escaped detection.

(6) To his friend and old pupil, Mr. C. W. Mason, for the great amount of time and care which he has bestowed upon the taking of special photographs.

(7) To the Publishers of the book, who have placed in his hands every possible facility for enriching its pages with whatever illustrations they thought would prove of interest, and who have thereby produced a book which it is hoped will reach the high-water mark of excellence in artistic production.

Hymers College, Hull,

1912.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I.WHAT THE EAST RIDING IS[1]
II.HOW THE EAST RIDING WAS MADE[3]
III.MEN OF THE STONE AGE[8]
IV.MEN OF THE BRONZE AGE—THE ANCIENT BRITONS[20]
V.MEN OF THE IRON AGE—THE ROMANS IN EAST YORKSHIRE[29]
VI.OUR ANCESTORS[40]
VII.HOW THE MEN OF THE NORTH BECAME CHRISTIANS[47]
VIII.THE COMING OF THE NORTHMEN[56]
IX.IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 892[65]
X.TWO FAMOUS BATTLES OF LONG AGO[74]
XI.HOW THE NORMANS CAME TO YORKSHIRE[85]
XII.HOW OUR ANCIENT PARISH CHURCHES WERE BUILT[95]
XIII.THE BIRTH OF HULL AND THE ROMANCE OF THE DE LA POLES[111]
XIV.MONKS, NUNS, AND FRIARS[123]
XV.SAINT JOHN OF BEVERLEY AND HIS MINSTER[135]
XVI.SANCTUARIES[145]
XVII.HOW TWO KINGS OF ENGLAND LANDED AT SPURN[155]
XVIII.LIFE IN A MEDIÆVAL TOWN[162]
XIX.THE TRADE UNIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES[179]
XX.THE SUPPRESSION OF THE MONASTERIES AND THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE[188]
XXI.HOW THE GREAT CIVIL WAR BEGAN AT HULL[202]
XXII.HOW HULL WAS TWICE BESIEGED[212]
XXIII.SOME ANCIENT EAST RIDING FAMILIES[223]
XXIV.STAGE COACH AND RAILWAY[238]
XXV.ENGLAND’S THIRD PORT—THE MODERN GROWTH OF HULL[253]
XXVI.FAMOUS SONS OF THE EAST RIDING[269]
XXVII.SHIPS OF THE HUMBER[284]
XXVIII.FOLK-SPEECH OF THE EAST RIDING[301]
XXIX.HOW THE EAST RIDING GOVERNS ITSELF[311]
XXX.EAST RIDING SCHOOLS[321]
XXXI.THE EAST RIDING ROLL OF HONOUR[344]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
The Pride of the East Riding[Frontispiece]
The Three Ridings of Yorkshire[2]
One of the First Inhabitants of the East Riding[4]
Relics of the Ice Age[6]
Skull and Antlers of a Red Deer[7]
Bone Implements and Weapons from Barrows on the Wolds[9]
Section of Howe Hill, Duggleby[12]
Polished Flint Knife found in Duggleby Howe[14]
Flint Implement and Weapons[15]
Unfinished Stone Adze Head and Whinstone Axe Head[16]
Food Vessel from a Barrow on Acklam Wold[17]
The Rudstone Monolith[18]
The Earliest Kind of Axe used in East Yorkshire[19]
Bronze Celt or Axe Head found at Swine[21]
Plan of a Barrow on Calais Wold, and Ideal Restoration of the Site of Burial[23]
British Gold Coin found at Atwick[24]
How a British Chieftain’s Wife was Buried in Garton Slack[25]
A British War Chariot[26]
Earthworks at Skipsea Brough[28]
Statue of a Roman Soldier in the York Museum[30]
Section of a Roman Military Highway[31]
Roman Roads Around the Humber[35]
Roman Pig of Lead found at South Cave[36]
Roman ‘Pens’ found at Brough[36]
Relics of Roman Feasts found at Easington[37]
A ‘Safety-Pin’ Sixteen Hundred Years Old[38]
Design of the Pavement of a Roman Villa at Harpham[39]
Iron Knife and Bronze Spoon from an Anglian Cemetery[45]
Child’s Toys found in a Burial Vase at Sancton[45]
‘Finds’ in an Anglian Cemetery near Garton Gatehouse[46]
Goodmanham Church (From an Old Engraving)[52]
Two Sides of an Anglian Cross Shaft at Leven[55]
Danish Settlements in a Portion of North Lincolnshire[60]
Danish Cross Head at North Frodingham[63]
Danish Sun-Dial built into the Wall of Aldbrough Church[64]
Plan of the Battle of Stamford Bridge[81]
Holderness in the Domesday Book[93]
A Norman Font in Kirkburn Church[96]
A Piscina in Patrington Church[97]
Part of the Foundations of the Tower of Holy Trinity Church, Hull[99]
Filey Church, Showing the Lines of the Original Roof[100]
The ‘Beverley Imp’—St. Mary’s Church, Beverley[101]
Different Forms of Arches[103]
‘Norman’ and ‘Early English’ South Doors[105]
Part of the South Wall of the Church at Garton-on-the-Wolds[106]
‘Churchwarden’ Restoration at Welwick Church[108]
A Grotesque ‘Poppy-Head’ at Holy Trinity, Hull[109]
Brass of Thomas Tonge, Rector of Beeford[110]
Arms of Kingston-upon-Hull[111]
Silver Penny Coined at Hull in the Reign of Edward I.[112]
Photograph of the Hull Charter[113]
Effigies of Sir William and Dame Katherine De la Pole[117]
Arms of the De la Poles[118]
Common Seal of the Corporation of Kingston-upon-Hull[119]
Seal of Edmund De la Pole[121]
Pedigree of the De la Poles[122]
Arms of Bridlington Priory[123]
A Cistercian Monk[124]
A Benedictine Nun[125]
Plan of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstall[127]
The Priory Church, Bridlington[129]
A Corner of the Cloister Court at Kirkham Priory[131]
The Bayle Gate, Bridlington[132]
A White Friar in His Study[133]
Arms of Beverley Minster[135]
Beverley Minster in the Eighteenth Century[137]
‘Early English’ Doorway in the South Transept[138]
Small ‘Decorated’ Doorway at the West End[139]
Part of the Arcading on the South Side of the Nave[141]
‘Hey-diddle-diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle’[142]
Plan of Beverley Minster[143]
Sanctuary Cross at Bishop Burton[147]
The Beverley Frith-Stool[150]
Sanctuary Knocker at All Saints’ Church, York[151]
Henry of Lancaster’s Cross[161]
Present Seal of the Borough of Hedon[162]
North Bar Without, Beverley[163]
Part of a Fourteenth-Century Plan of Hull[165]
High Street, Hull[166]
Sections of a Mediæval and a Modern Street[167]
Parish Stocks preserved in Beverley Minster[169]
Arms of the Hull Trinity House[172]
A Miracle Play in the Olden Time[174]
Noah’s Ark[175]
A Fourteenth-Century ‘Show’[177]
Bear-Baiting[178]
The Beverley Minstrels[185]
Arms of the Hull Merchants’ Company[186]
The Gateway of Kirkham Priory[190]
Ruins of the East End of the Church[191]
Badge of the Pilgrimage of Grace[193]
Howden Church from the South[196]
Howden Church—Ruins of the Chapter House[198]
All that Remained of Meaux Abbey in 1900[201]
A Bird’s-Eye View of Kyngeston-vpon-Hvll, A.D. 1640[206, 207]
King Charles I. at the Beverley Gate, Kingston-upon-Hull[211]
Sir John Hotham[216]
Medal Struck in Memory of Sir John Hotham[219]
Hull’s Water Gate[221]
Wressle Castle[225]
The Percy Tomb, Beverley Minster[230]
Burton Constable Hall[232]
Brass of Sir Thomas de St. Quintin in Harpham Church[233]
Burton Agnes Hall[234]
Effigy of a Knight in Plate Armour at Swine[235]
Effigy of a Knight in Chain Armour at Howden[236]
Coat-of-Arms of the Stricklands[237]
On the Road in 1812[238]
Hull and York Coaching Bill, A.D. 1787[241]
Coaching Roads and Early Railways[243]
Pistols and Holsters formerly used on the Hull and Patrington Coach[245]
The First Time-Table of the Hull and Selby Railway[248]
The Hull and Beverley Stage Coach[251]
On the Road in 1912[252]
Whitefriargate Bridge and the Victoria Square, Hull[255]
Plan of Docks West of the River Hull[258]
Plan of Docks East of the River Hull[259]
The Wilson Liner ‘Eskimo’ Getting up Steam[260]
Grain Ships Discharging their Cargoes[261]
Agricultural Machinery on the Way to Russia[264]
A Steam Trawler[265]
N.E.R. Riverside Quay[267]
The Garden Village, Hull[268]
John Alcock, Bishop of Ely[270]
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester[272]
Andrew Marvell[273]
Birthplace of William Wilberforce[275]
William Wilberforce[277]
Sir Tatton Sykes[281]
Charles Wilson, First Baron Nunburnholme[282]
Arthur Wilson[283]
An Ancient ‘Dug-out’ found in North Lincolnshire[285]
A Viking Ship on a Church Door[286]
Ancient Seal of the Corporation of Hedon[287]
English Warships in the Time of the Armada[289]
A News Sheet of 1837[291]
The Hull Whaler ‘Truelove’[293]
The First Steamship Built on the Humber[295]
A Humber Pilot Boat[297]
Ships Old and New—The ‘Southampton’—‘Bayardo’[299]
Entrance to the Old Harbour[300]
Ancient Arms of Beverley[311]
Modern Arms of Bridlington[313]
Local Government Areas in the East Riding[314]
The Hedon Mace—the Oldest Civic Mace in Britain[316]
Crest of the East Riding County Council[318]
Council Chamber at the County Hall, Beverley[320]
Arms of Beverley Grammar School[322]
Arms of Howden Grammar School[322]
Arms of Bridlington Grammar School[323]
Arms of Hull Grammar School[324]
Arms of Pocklington Grammar School[325]
At School in the Fourteenth Century[325]
Part of the Seal of a Lincolnshire Grammar School[326]
Ancient Cock-Fighting Bell of Pocklington School[328]
A Boys’ Play-Ground in the Seventeenth Century[330]
The Old Grammar School, Hull[333]
The High School for Girls, Bridlington[335]
Seal of the Girls’ High School, Hull[336]
Bridlington Grammar School[339]
Arms of Hymers College[340]
Hymers College[341]
A Typical School on the Yorkshire Wolds[342]
A Modern City Council School343#
Map of the East Riding of Yorkshire[End Cover]

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