WHITBV, 



for the city of York, on his travels in T'a^y, visited 

 the alum works of the pope ; and finding that the 

 rock from which the alum was made was the same 

 as that produced by his own estate at Guisborough 

 in Yorkshire, he engaged a number of ihe pope's 

 workmen to accompany him to England ; and con- 

 veyed them on board the vessel in which they em- 

 barked, in hogsheads; and with their assistance 

 begun his alu.n work at Guisborougii ; and soon 

 became a most formidable rival to the traders of the 

 Vatican : in consequence of which the pope is said 

 to have excommunicated, not only Sir Thomas 

 Chaloner, but also all the other persons engaged in 

 this manufacture. 



Grose's Antiquities, vol. I. p. 10 7. 



But profit triumphed over fear : other alum works 

 were commenced, and alum was soon reduced to 

 half the price for which it was sold in the Italian 

 works. The alum works on the Yorkshire coast 

 are the principal establishments of the kind in 

 England. Lord Dundas, Lord Mulgrave, and others 

 carry them on. 



The parish church of Whitby has already been 

 named, as being approached by 200 steps. The liv- 

 ing is a perpetual curacy, in the paironge of the 

 Archbishop of York, and the Rev James Andrews 

 is the incumbent, there is also a chapel of ease in 

 Baxtergate, built in 1778. Besu es the places of 

 worship belonging to the established church, here 

 are 8 others, belonging to different sects ; - Three 

 Methodist ; two Presbyterian j one indepenuent j 



