RESTORATION 



OF THE 



HOSPITIUM OF ST. MARY'S ABBEY, 



AND 



PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS IN YORK. 



We whose names are undersigned, being desirous of promoting the 

 Fine Arts in York, by providing a suitable building for the Exhibition 

 of Pictures and Sculpture ; and being satisfied that the Hospitium of 

 St, Mary's Abbey, now in great disrepair, would, if restored, afford 

 ample accommodation for this and other useful public objects ; — do 

 engage to subscribe the sums placed opposite our respective names, for 

 the purpose of enabling the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to restore 

 that building ; on the understanding that, for Public Exhibitions of 

 Pictures and Sculpture, under the direction of a body of Subscribers in 

 Yorkshire, the use of the rooms shall be freely granted, without charge, 

 «xcept during any Meeting in York of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



Svhscriptions already received : 



Earl Fitzwilliam, President 

 of the Yorkshire Philo- 

 sophical Society 



Earl de Grey 



The Lord Mayor ... 



The Lady Mayoress 



Wm. Allen 



<jt. Townsend Andrews 



James Atkinson • • • 



James Barber 



Thomas Barstow ... 



John Bayldon 



John Blanchard ... 



John Brook 



George Brown 



John F. Brown ... 



Joseph Buckle 



John Bulmer 



Noel A. Carter -. 



Sir G. Cayley, Bart, 



Francis Cholmeley 



Rev. E. Chiirton ... 



F. J. Copsie 



Rev. Stephen Creyke 



£. s. d. 



Misses Crompton 



Miss Currer, Eshton Hall 



Robert Davies 



Hon. W. H.Dawnay 

 Rev. W. H. Dixon 

 Hon. W. Duncombe, M.P. 

 Rev. Thomas Egerton 



C.H. Elsley 



Wm. Etty, R.A 



Rev. W. Flower, Jan. 

 James Robert Fryer 

 William Garforth 



Robert Gilbert 



George Goldie, M.D. 



Wm, Gray, Jun 



C. J. Hanson 

 John Harper .;. 



Edward Harper 



John Hutton, Marske 

 Hon. C. Langdale, M.P. .. 

 Thomas Laycock 

 Geo. Lloyd, Cowsby 

 Miss Lloyd, Peashohne 

 House ... 



