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York: with a few notes on Beberlev, 
By R. CHURCHILL. 
(Read before the Society, April 21st, 1893.) 
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amg NE of the first things, I should imagine, that would 
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(*) strike a visitor upon setting foot in the quaint and 
p24} ancient city of York, is, that he has arrived at a town 
with a history. The instant you leave the nineteenth 
century railway station you are brought face to face with the 
city walls of the twelfth century. 
It is quite unknown when these walls were first built. There is 
evidence that they were in existence before the time of Henry III. 
(1216), and there are large portions that are attributable to the 
Romans. The Multiangular tower (as it is called) especially, 
which is in good preservation, is no doubt a Roman work, Roman 
legionary inscriptions having been discovered in the lower courses 
of the interior. This tower has ten sides and therefore contains 
nine obtuse angles. It is built with stone bonded in with five 
courses of red bricks alternately. The upper part is of later date, 
and is of the Decorated period. 
These Roman walls, a portion of which may be seen on the 
right hand side of the tower, formed part of the town of Eboracum, 
which title is still in evidence when the Archbishop signs his 
name in the contracted form of “Ebor.” But this name of 
Eboracum is only the Latinized or Roman version of the name of 
