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interesting antient documents, obtained from various 

 sources, at great trouble and expense, and incontestably 

 proves that, long previous to the visit of Edward the First to 

 Cottingham, in 1296, the ground on which Hull stands was 

 the site of a populous and improving town called Wic or 

 Wyke. Mr. Frost has collected his materials from mo- 

 nastic MSS. and other Records, deposited in the British 

 Museum, in public Libraries, in the Tower, in the Chapter- 

 House and Augmentation Office, in the Bodleian Library, in 

 the Registries of the Archbishop and Dean and Chapter of 

 York, among the Archives of the Corporation of Hull, and in 

 the Library of Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, at Bur- 

 ton Constable. Extracts from the earliest of these, sought out 

 with indefatigable industry, and carefully made, demonstra- 

 bly prove Mr. Frost's position as to the existence and consi- 

 derable extent of the town of Hull, antecedent to the time of 

 Edward, its reputed founder. The mistake of our early 

 and later antiquarian historians, Leland, Camden, &c., in 

 making that Sovereign the founder, he reasonably ascribes 

 to the favour in which that Monarch was held, in conse- 

 quence of the privileges he had bestowed on the town, and 

 to the designation being then given to it of Kingston, or 

 King's Town. They adopted the popular opinion, which was 

 in a great measure confirmed by the records to which they 

 had access. Mr. Frost's professional engagements imposed 

 upon him the duty of most accurate research ; and, in his pur- 

 suit of information on a great Tithe Question, he fell upon 

 stores which, by his predecessors, were not known to be in 



