The Gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of the Gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Edited by George Laurence Gomme

MAGAZINEGENTLEMAN'STHELIBRARY,THEMAGAZINEGENTLEMAN'SLIBRARY:BEINGCONTENTS OFOF THE CHIEFA CLASSIFIED COLLECTIONFROM TO 1868.MAGAZINETHE GENTLEMAN'S 1731EDITED BYF.S.A.GOMME,GEORGE LAURENCEPART XIV.ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY,WORCESTERSHIRE YORKSHIRE.)(M.A.F. A.EDITED BY MILNE,LONDON:E.CPATERNOSTER ROW,ELLIOT STOCK, 62,1902.PREFACE.Yorkshire in thisWITH the two counties of Worcestershire andfrom the GENTLEMAN'Svolume the collectionscounty properthe London items toMAGAZINE are therefinished, remaining onlythe entire series.completethisis so a that it is notYorkshire interesting county surprisingvolume should be valuable. Its wealth of notes inparticularlyandmatters of church of genealogy;history, family history, heraldryrecord of facts con-its details of local itsscenery ; contemporaryvisited and of discoveries in thenected with or residential,placesas those Towton where thefor atfields, such, instance, (p. 342),battle was a to this collection notfought, gives place easilygreatover-valued. Of there are fancifulcourse, errors, deductions,wrong"of old to the "Saxon or the Romanascription buildings periodare to for aallusions to the who held beDruids,period, responsibleand so on. But these are due to the times whendiscovered,ringwere and will be and accountedthe notes written, readily recognisedfor all students these volumes. No has been madeby using attemptto alter the some fancifuloriginal, except by omitting altogetherwhen its in the text ...