A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



a portion of Lambert's army. There was no battle. Lambert's soldiers rushed to their old 

 leader and York was won for Royalists. Monk arrived at York on the nth and left for London 

 on the iSth.^' The Restoration in Yorkshire was chiefly the work of Fairfax who, on i8 May, 

 formed one of the party sent over to the Hague to invite Charles to return. 



On 1 1 May Charles II was proclaimed at York amid great enthusiasm, and on 29 May he 

 rode into London on a horse — ' Nun Appleton ' — given him by Fairfax. 



Yet the old Puritanical sentiment was active, and the deputy lieutenants received orders to 

 make a general search for arms and to inquire into people's principles, and how they stood assured 

 to the Government.''** 



In 1662 the Duke of Buckingham was sent to his lieutenancy of the West Rifling, there to 

 raise the militia to oppose a rebellion ready to break out in those parts." The parties concerned 

 in this design were some oflScers of the late Parliamentary army and some persons dissatisfied at 

 losing their Crown and Church lands by the king's return. The disaffected met at Farnley Wood 

 near Pontefract, but finding little support they dispersed. About twenty-one persons were arrested 

 for taking part in the sedition and were all found guilty of high treason by a special commission 

 brought down to York for the purpose, fifteen '^ of them being executed next January, including 

 Rymer and Oates, the leaders, men of substantial property. 



In 1665 James, Duke of York, and brother of Charles, spent two months in York while the 

 plague raged in London and was received with full civic pomp and circumstance.''' When he 

 visited the city, fourteen years later, having in the meantime publicly embraced Roman Catholicism, 

 he was but coldly welcomed, much to his displeasure, which had serious consequences for the city 

 afterwards." Disaffection was not yet dead, for next year it was thought advisable to quarter 

 troops at Leeds, and in the following year when the king wished to borrow money on the security 

 of a land tax voted by Parliament he could not get any in Yorkshire. 



On the dissolution of the Cabal Ministry in 1673, a famous Yorkshireman, Sir Thomas 

 Osborne, rose to be Lord High Treasurer of England and Earl of Danby." He succeeded his 

 patron, the Duke of Buckingham, as Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding on the disgrace and 

 impeachment of the duke in 1674 for his intrigue with Lady Shrewsbury." 



The Hallamshire corporation of cutlers resisted the levying of hearth-money on their furnaces, 

 which were exempt as being ' blowing-houses,' and for a time their claims were recognized. 



The Popish Plot excitement extended to York, and tour persons were brought to trial in 1680 

 for alleged complicity therein. Only one was found guilty, ' a priest, being more his guilt than the 

 plot.' " At the same assizes a petition was offered to the grand jury from some of the anti-court 

 party, in the name of the whole county, for the sitting of Parliament. One of the grand jury 

 tore the petition in pieces, and next day a counter petition was drawn up and signed, expressing 

 abhorrence of such proceedings, ' the King being the only fit judge when Parliament ought to sit.* " 

 When the Commons met, the ' abhorrers ' were voted betrayers of the liberties of the people, and 

 abettors of arbitrary power, and two members for Yorkshire who had signed the abhorrence were 

 convened before the committee. 



Sir John Reresby was appointed Governor of York in 1682,'° and noted that the ' loyal party 

 in York is much inferior to the factious.' * Next year the new governor was busy searching for 

 persons implicated in the Rye House Plot. Several Scotch 'petty chapmen' or pedlars were 

 arrested as being emissaries of the conspirators, and several gentry suspected of disaffection were 

 disarmed. '^ 



The city of York, with many other corporate municipalities, suffered the loss of its charter 

 under writ of quo warranto in 1 684, 'as being remarkable for height of faction.' °^ The notorious 

 Jeffreys came to the city on circuit and promised to speak to the king on behalf of the citizens. 

 Next year the town of Doncaster yielded up its charter into the king's hands. 



In February 1685 Charles II died, but the exclusionists remained quiet and James II was 

 proclaimed in due course. A new charter duly arrived in August,^ but the temper of the citizens, 

 and indeed of the whole county, was gradually aroused by James's actions. In 1687 nineteen 

 gentlemen of the West Riding were put out of the commission of the peace and ten Papists put in 

 their room," while the king granted the manor of York for thirty years to ' one Mr. Lawson a 



" Drake, Eboracum (publ. Lond. 1736), 173. 



" Sir J. Reresby's Memoirs (ed. Cartwright), 54. " Ibid. 58. 



" Drake says twenty-one, and gives names (op. cit. 175) and details. 



" Reresbt's Memoirs, ut sup. 64. " Ibid. 180. 



" Ibid. 88. " Ibid. 93. 



" Ibid. 186. "Ibid. 187. 



" Ibid. 246. « Ibid. 264 n. 



" Ibid. 280-3. " Ibid. 264, 302. 



"Ibid. 341. " Ibid. 368. 



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