The history of castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters / [Ely Hargrove].

  • Hargrove, Ely, 1742-1818
Date:
1782
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Credit: The history of castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal waters / [Ely Hargrove]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (aa ) by tlié following paffage in the memoirs of Colonel” Sir Henry Slingfby. ' And now my Lord Fairfax and his fon began “ to appear in arms, and join with Hotham, who ‘* before enjoyed his houfe at York, though not my “ Lord Limfelf, yet his fon lived in the city, even * when the gentlemen held their meetings for raif- ‘ing money and levying. men, by commiflion of ‘¢ array; when they fummoned the headConftables ‘“to-pive their warrants for the raifing of eight _ © thoufand pounds; formerly charged upon the coun ‘try, and confidering how to hinder Hotham from ‘¢ ranging the country. The head Conftables obey, ‘* but withall putting doubts and obftacles, fome “ real; fome imaginary and. devifed, fo that little a8 Gf nothing. was effected, Sir Thomas Fairfax ** takes notice of all this, being in York, and fees ** ing me as I was riding to my own houfe, fends “his man after me in the ftreet, defiring to fpeak ** with me, and it was to let-me-know He took ** notice, that the gentlemen held their meetings ‘*in York, for raifing money and men,’ by the: ** commniflion of array, which was contrary tolaw, “and caufed the country to be in fear; but he “* would endeavour to remove them. I told him ** I conceived that neither himfelf nor any’of his “had any caufe of fear, feeine as then he had not Sf appeared in arms, and what was intended was