SOME ACCOUNT OF 
ANALECTA EBOLA CENSIA . 
Quaint old Fuller, at the end of his section on York 1 says : 
“ Let me adde, I am informed that Sir Thomas Widdrington, 
a person accomplished, in all Arts, as well as in his own 
Profession of the Laws, hath made great Progress in his 
Exact Description of this City. Nor doe I more congratulate 
the happiness of York coming under so Able a Pen, then 
Condole my own Infelicity, whose unsuccessful attendance 
hitherto could not compass speech with this worthy knight. 
Sure I am, when this work is set forth, then indeed York 
shall be, —what ? A city most compleatly Illustrated in all 
the Antiquities and Remarkables thereof.'’ These words were 
published in 1662, two years before the death of Sir Thomas 
Widdrington. 
The commendable hope expressed by Fuller, that Sir 
Thomas would publish the materials he had collected for the 
history of York, was not realised. 
More than thirty years later, we find an historian lamenting 
that Widdrington’s history of York is still in manuscript, and 
likely to remain unpublished. Bishop Gibson, in his edition 
of Camden’s Britannia , 3 published in 1695, says : “ This 
ancient and noble city might have had an agreeable light, if 
Sir Thomas Widdrington, a person accomplisht in all arts, as 
well as in his own profession of the laws, after he had wrote 
1 Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, 1662, p. 232. 
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