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Linn.] growing in great plenty. King Henry VIII, his 

 house, called the Manor, is now the magazine. Hull is 

 noted for good ale. The town of Hull was (they say) of 

 old time, a small village called Wike, till the merchants, 

 leaving the Spurne or Sprun, which is the utmost point of 

 Holderness, upon the sea, because the sea daily en- 

 croached upon their town there, came and seated them- 

 selves here, twenty miles higher up the Humber : thence 

 came Hull to its growth and riches. The governor of 

 the town, at our being there, was the Lord Bellasis. 

 There is an old saying, 



" Wlien Dighton is pulled dowii, 

 HuU shall become a great town." 



This Dighton was a village close by the town, pulled 

 down in the time of the late wars. 



August the 1st, we proceeded on our journey from 

 Hull, through Beverley, to Selby, twenty-seven miles. At 

 Beverley we staid to see the minster, a very fair building, 

 the roof an arch of stone. It hath a double cross build- 

 ing, one in the choir. The seats in the choir were cano- 

 pied over with very good carved wood- work with little 

 statues, which are now taken away. In the church are 

 several monuments of the Piercies of Northumberland, 

 the earls whereof have added a little chapel to the choir, 

 in the window whereof are the pictures of divers of that 

 family, curiously painted in the glass. At the upper end 

 of the choh% on the right side of the altar, stands the 

 Freed-stool, of one entire stone, which was formerly a 

 sanctuary, said to have been brought from Dunbar in 

 Scotland, and behind it, in the wall, a weU of water. At 

 the upper end of the body of the church, next the choir, 

 hangs an antient table, in which are the pictures of St. 

 John (from whom this church is named) and King Ethel- 

 stan the founder thereof. Between them this distich, 



" As free make I thee 

 As heart may think or egh may see." 



