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tlie Pavement, and S. Andrew’s, in S. Andrewgate. Possibly 
these had been additions to the monastery after its foundation; 
at least it is worthy of remark, that all the churches named in 
Domesday are in this particular district of York ; the churches, 
(certainly of ante-Norman foundation), of S. Mary on Bishop- 
hill, being unnoticed because they were in the Archbishop’s 
ward. 
Convinced of the soundness of the view I now take, I cannot 
say I am sorry that I am forced to abandon one which I held 
until lately, and which seemed to me to identify satisfactorily 
the three persons who are named in the first and second lines. 
Finding in Domesday that William de Perci had the church of 
S. Mary; that one Ebrard, or Evrard, was tenant under him 
of Leathley and Linton-on-the-Wharfe, and of Hagedenebi 
(near Healaugh), in Yorkshire, and of Legsby and Holton in 
Lincolnshire ; that one Grim held of Ernegis de Burun, the 
manors of Acaster, Stillingfleet, and Cottingwith, in Yorkshire, 
Goxhill, Thornton, Ulceby, and Barnetby, in Lincolnshire ; 
that one Asa held of William de Perci, the manors of Hayton, 
Burnby and Scorborough in Yorkshire ; that Ebrard and his 
two brothers were owners of Spridlington, (not far from Legsby 
and Holton), in Lincolnshire, T. B. E. ; I thought it very 
probable that Ebrard and his two brothers were the same as the 
Ebrard Grim and ^se of our own record, and that they had 
been lords of an extensive district in the south-west and south¬ 
east of Yorkshire, and of other estates in Lincolnshire, before the 
Conquest. Under this impression I could only supply the date 
MLXxvi, and this too seemed a probable date for the building 
of these churches, as it was only seven years after the destruc¬ 
tion of all this part of York by fire. All this I must now 
abandon, and refer this inscription to a period respecting which 
history is almost entirely silent, rather than to one which is 
illustrated by a document so important as Domesday. There 
is nothing in the character of the writing to favour one date 
rather than the other, and Grim, supposed to be a Danish 
name, was in use amongst the Angles also. 
Mr. Noble, the hon. secretary of the society, then made some 
observations on the approaching Eclipse of the Sun of the 22nd 
