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of the finest places of worship in England. Its chapter- 

 house, which still bears the truthful, if boasting, inscrip- 

 tion of " ut rosa flos florum sic domus ista doraorum,"' 

 and its great east window, with its original painted 

 glass, are certainly unequalled ; while the vestry rooms 

 holds antiquarian treasures of the highest interest. Of 

 the numerous churches the visitor should note Christ 

 Church, which stands in the " Kings Court, plausibly 

 surmised to mean the imperial Eoman palace ; and there 

 is Saxon or norman work in St. Helen, Stonegate, St. 

 Margaret, Walmgate, St. Lawrence, and St. Mary the- 

 Younger ; nor should All Saints Pavement, with its 

 octagonal lantern, through which shone the beacon 

 which helped weary wanderers to find their way home 

 when lost in the great Forest of Galtres, or All Saints,, 

 North-street, with its " bede " window with scenes 

 from the last judgment and quotations from a local poem 

 called the " Prick of Conscience," be passed over." 



Ladies and Gentlemen. In the distinguished audience 

 here present, I am reminded of two distinct classes of 

 listeners : the first, composed of cultivated, travelled 

 persons, who probably know as much, more perhaps, 

 than I could tell them of famous old York : they con- 

 stitute, however the minnrity — an enlightened power- 

 full minority, if you like. The other class, the 

 most numerous, have not yet seen York ; may 

 never see it, but long to do so, and until they do, they 

 will I think, beckon me on to tell what I know about 

 the good city ; they compose the majority. Instead 

 therefore of merely hurrying though the interesting 

 sights and scenes so familiar to the minority, I have 

 drawn copiously from the notes and sketches, so care- 

 fully, so ably prepared by the litterati of York, for the 

 especial benefit, of the distinguished visitors attracted 

 there in September last, by the Jubilee of the British 

 Association. We shall therefore, with your leave first,, 

 pay a visit to the venerable Minster of York and saunter 



