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only one legible is sister Catharine Meger. On a 

 lintel, in the end of one of the offices on the east, is 

 this inscription : ' Omnia Vanitas,' all is vanity. 

 These words originally intended to remind the 

 nuns of the vanity of this world, now stand as an 

 appropriate motto over the ruins of monastic gran- 

 deur. Picture of Whitby, p. 273. 



WHITBY. 



After the publication of Mr. Young's excellent 

 history of this place, it is not necessary that I should 

 write much respecting it ; and were it not for the 

 probability that many of my readers may not be in 

 possession of that work, I should pass over it in 

 silence : but conceiving that some of them may 

 not have it, I have furnished them with a brief sketch 

 of the history of this important place; derived prin- 

 cipally from Burton's Monasticon, and Cam den's 

 Brittania. 



Whitby is situaieu in the liberty of Whitby strand, 

 S2 miles from Guisborough, 20 from Scarborough, 

 31 from Stokesley, and 47 from York; in 54 deg. 

 29 min. 24 sec., west longitude. 



After the Saxons had subdued the Britons, and 

 established themselves in this part of the island, 

 (called from the Angles, one of tho se Saxon nations, 

 England, under different kings ) they had frequent 

 quarrels and wars with each other This was the 

 case with the kingdom of Mercia; which contained 

 the midland part of this island, and that of North* 

 uinberland, bordering upon it on the north* 



