The History of Scarborough (1882)
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CONTENTS.
SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION.
Name; A Borough by prescription; A
Royal Borough; Not in Doomsday Book; Why earliest
mention of; Danes and Saxons; Roman Roads and Map
of; Ancient Limits; Reduced to Ashes; The Cliffs;
Climate; Salubrity; Natural History; Flora of the
Neighbourhood; Algae; Icthyology; Geology;
Falsgrave; Incorporation with Scarbrough, &c.
SECTION 2. CHARTERS.
Their purpose; Those of Kings Henry I. and
II.; King John; Henry III.; Edward I., II., and III.;
Richard II; Henry IV. V. and VT.; Edward IV.;
Richard III.; Henry VII. and VIII.; Edward VI.;
Philip and Mary; Elizabeth; James 1.; Charles L and
II.; William III.; George II, and III.; George IV.
William the IV.; Victoria
SECTION 3. THE CASTLE.
Lines to Situation; Area; Inroads of the Sea;
When Built; A Royal Castle; Chapel in CastleYard;
Description of the various Buildings; Charles' Tower;
George Fox, the Founder of the Society of Friends,
confined there; Castle, a prominent feature at Runnymede;
State Prisoners; King Edward and a splendid Court
there; Piers Gaveston besieged; Inquisition of value
taken; Repairs; King Richard and his Queen there.
Besieged by the " Pilgrims of Grace "; Curious Minute
Survey in 1538; Taken by surprise; Retaken; Scarbrough Warning;
Beacons; Besieged by Sir John
Meldrum for the Parliament; Death of Sir John;
Incident of the Siege; Preparation for Surrender;
Besieged again; Surrender; Ordered to be Victualled;
Besieged; Surrender; State Prisoners; List of Governors,
with personal Notes; Castle ordered to be razed to the
ground
SECTION 4. SIEGE OF THE TOWN.
Levies of men to appear at York;
Wat Tyler's Insurrection; Failure of; Muster of Scarbrough Trained; bands;
The Corporation decline to
acknowledge Jurisdiction of Lord Lieutenant within the
Borough; Fight in the Harbour between a Spanish
Frigate and a Dutch Man; of; War; Forts and Defences of
the Borough; Batteries; Siege and Surrender of the Town; £1,000 given by the Parliament to the Besiegers;
Conditions of Surrender; Distressed State of the Town
and Inhabitants; Ordered again to prepare for a Siege;
Soldiers raised, &c.; Statements to Parliament on the
Hardships of the Siege; Object to have Soldiers billeted
in Private Houses; Second Surrender of the Town; An
Officer of Prince Charles taken Prisoner; Another Alarm
of Invasion; Preparation to receive the Besiegers;
Ordnance sent down from Admiralty; False alarm
French Prisoners, &c.
SECTION 5. RELIGIOUS HOUSES AND ANCIENT CHURCHES.
Franciscans; Their rise, &c.; Cistercians; Dominicans; Carmelites;
St. Nicholas; St. Thomas; St. Sepulchre; Charnel
Chapel; Lady's Chapel; St. Helen's; St. John's; St.
SECTION 6. ST. MARY'S
A Vicarage, 1169; Advowson given to the
Abbot and Church of the Cistercians; Suppression of Alien
Monasteries; The one at Scarbrough given to Bridlington
Priory; Notes from Fountains Abbey Records; Value
of the Living in 1251; Estates in the possession of the
Corporation of Scarborough; In the Archdeaconry of
the East Riding of Yorkshire; Government Appointment
of Ministers; Disputes with the Fishermen about the
Tithe of Fish; Vicar's Stipend withheld owing to the Civil
War in England; Ministers ejected; Others appointed
by the Commonwealth; Salary of, paid out of the
Chapter; Land of Norwich; Terrier of Church Estates;
Destruction of Church during the Siege of Castle and
Town; Royal Brief for Repairs issued; Churchwardens
not to be Wine; tasters; Vicarage returned as unfit for
Residence; New Residence selected; Sale of Church
Estates; Investment of Proceeds; Present Income of;
Patron of; Registers; Pews; Bells; Plate; Ancient
Furniture, &c.; Stained Glass; Stone Coffins, &c., &c.;
Interesting Statement of Architecture of; List of Vicars;
Testamentary Notes; Conclusion
SECTION 7. MODERN CHURCHES.
Christ Church; St. Martin; on; the;
Hill; St. Thomas; All Saints; Holy Trinity; Roman
Catholic; Independent; Baptist; Society of Friends;
Wesleyan Primitive Methodist; Free Church Methodist; Unitarian; Brethren
SECTION 8. GOVERNING BODY OF THE BOROUGH.
Election of Officers;
Enquiry of Privy Council as to the right of the Corporation to tax Foreign Fishermen; Charter granted to
make Salt; Court Leet; Orders of Privy Council to
restrain the use of Wheaten Flour; Order of House of
Commons thereon; Appointment of a City Cook; Orders
to the Butchers in Lent; Writ from Privy Council to
take action at Malton, in respect of the Property of the
Ladies Eure; Curious Note on the Water Bushel; All
the Corporation to go to Church in Gowns, under a
penalty for disobedience; Court of Pleas; Magistrates'
decisions; A Case of Treason; King Charles II. demands
surrender of the Charters; Refused; Change from
Bailiffs to Mayor and Aldermen, &c .; First Orders of the
New Governing Body; Social Condition of Scarboro' at
that date; Declaration against the solemn League and
Covenant; Extraordinary Corporate Address to King
James II.; Salary of Corporate Officers; Sentences and
Punishments in Olden Times; Recorder; Assize of Bread;
Corporation keep a Pack of Hounds; Commission of
Assize; Sentence of Transportation; Two Governing
Bodies at one and the same time, continued for six years;
Law Suits thereon; Municipal Reform Act; First re;
formed Council; The Mayor's Badge; Corporate Seal;
Petty Officers under the old regime
SECTION 9. PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH.
Parliament coeval with the Kingdom; The earliest on record; First
instance of Borough summoned; The first Writ; early
nomination of Representative by a Peer; Representation
of the Borough much coveted; Bailiffs ordered into
Custody of Sergeant; at; Arms for making a False Return;
Lord Dupplin returned by help of the Freemen; Unseated
by Committee on Privileges; Law Suit; The two Members
asked to Subscribe £1,500 each; Pecuniary Difficulties; Mr. Lascelles,
M. P. on the Pier Debt; Mr. Osbaldeston
gives £200 towards an Organ for St. Mary's; Anecdote of
the Speaker of the House of Commons; Lord Tyrconnell,
M.P., gives a present of £300; Sir Hugh Palliser, M. P.,
does the same; Lord Musgrave gives a complement of £350;
Petition of the Borough for Electional Reform; Free
Burgesses meet and demand to Vote; Their Vote
refused; Law Suit threatened; Corporation subscribe
liberally to defeat the Freemen; Mace, Seals, .Records,
&c., ordered to be placed in safe Custody; Iron Chest
procured; Free Burgesses attend at the Hall to Vote;
Represented by Council; Trial at York; Free Burgesses
defeated; Cost of Suit; Threatening Letter to burn some
of the Officers' Houses; Col. Tindall threatened;
Proclamation from the King, and Government Reward;
Election Rhyme; List of Members of Parliament from
1253 to 1880, with personal notes
SECTION 10. CORPORATE HISTORY.
Chronological Arrangement;
Agreement with Social Corporate Towns in respect of
Dues, &c.; Tolls; Bad Malt shipped to Newcastle, &c.;
Writ of Fi. Fa.; Corn Mills of the Borough; A Collec;
tion for the Poor; Negotiating a Loan; Dutchmen Fined
for Fishing in the Bay; The Plague; Vessel with Malt
seized; Orders from Privy Council respecting Markets;
Action in the Star Chamber; Assessment to build Pews
for St. Mary's; Corporation buy a Wreck, and divide
profit; Brewers' Licenses; Action at Law commenced;
Interference of Peers at Elections; Corporation bind
their Members to Secrecy; Hall to grind no more Corn
with his Horse Mill; Order from House of Commons on
" Strong Water Shops"; A Certificate for a Man who
disliked work; Dispute about Pews; Clipped Coin of the
Realm; Fee; farm Rent; Law Suits; Double Set of
Bailiff's, &c.; Costs and Consequences; Ugly Reports
about Pier Dues; Mace and Corporate Seal seized for
Debt; Mr. Fox elected a Corporator; Declines to accept
Office; Is sued by Corporation in Spiritual Court for not
taking Sacrament; Trial at Law; Corporation to pay
Costs and Damages; Freemen's Meetings and Proceedings; Their requests refused; Enquiry by Municipal Com;
misioners; Sale of Lands; Tithes and King's Rent;
Opening of the Corporation to the Town; Re; arrange;
ment of Officers; Schedule of Town Lands, &c., and of
those disposed of
SECTION 11. CHARITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
St. Nicholas' Hospital; St. Thomas' Hospital; Mrs. Conyer's Charity; Farrar's
Hospital; Lawson's Charity; Conyer's Legacy;
Allatson's Charity; Megginson's Charity; Ledman's
Hospital; Trott's Hospital; Trott's Charity at Falsgrave; Stubb's Charity; Rickenson's Charity; Burg's
Hospital; Chamber'sLegacy; Bell's Charity; Robinson's
Hospital; Cockerell's Charity; North's Hospital; Mill
Street Hospital; Spinster's Hospital; Clark's Legacy;
Taylor's Free Dwellings and Charities; Wilson's Mariners
Hospital; Merchant Seamen's Hospital ; Hospital of
the Trinity House; Williamson's Legacy; Sea; bathing
Infirmary; Humane Society; Dispensaries; Female and
Sick Charities; Buckle's Free Dwellings; Castle Dykes
Hospital; Hackett's Legacy; Lifeboat.
Public Schools.; Grammar School; Falsgrave Grammar
School; Amicable Society's Schools; Spinning Schools
; School of Industry; Lancasterian Schools; National
Schools; Infant School; Wesleyan Day School; St.
Peter's School; Creche; Board Schools
SECTION 12. MARKETS, FAIRS, AND COMMERCE.
Thursday Market; Saturday Market; Apple Market; Meat Market; Beast
Market; Stone of Compact; Cloth Market; Corn Market; Pig Market; Market Hall; Market during the Siege;
Great Annual Fair; Seamer Market; Contentions about
it; Suppression of; Salt Fish Market; Fish Market;
Market on the Sands; Market Tolls; Horse Fair; Guilds; Sale of Ling or Heather
SECTION 13. HARBOUR AND SHIPPING, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND STREET NOMENCLATURE.
The Pier of 1252; Shipowners
summoned to attend a Council of Trade; Seizure of Ships
in the Port; Act for Repairs, 1541; Petition to Queen
Elizabeth; Prayer granted; Martin Frobisher at Scar;
brough; Admiral Verasque taken Prisoner; Application
from the Crown for Workmen for Dover Piers; Reply of
Corporation; Spanish Armada; Sea Fight in the Harbour;
Dutch Fleet landed men, and took a Ship out of the
Harbour; French Ship taken, with 80 English Prisoners
of War; Pirates; Dutch Fleet off the Coast; French
Prisoners; Enlargement of the Harbour; Pier run out at
Ramsdale Scar; Jetty Break Water; And removed;
Dimensions of Outer Pier; Press; gang; Whaling Vessels;
Fight with Paul Jones; Tonnage; Question of Cor;
porate Jurisdiction; Lighthouse; Tidal Notice, &c.;
Street Nomenclature; Public Buildings; Museum;
Archaeology; Coins; Commercial Tokens; Mechanics'
Institute; Post Office; Town Hall; New Town Hall;
Old Long Room Hall of Pleas; Old Globe Inn; Public
Library; Temperance Hall; Cemetery; Workhouse;
SECTION 14. RECREATIONS AND AMUSEMENTS.
Spa Buildings; Theatre
Royal; Londesborough Theatre; Aquarium; Cricket
Ground; Races; Scalby Mills Tea Gardens; Mere Tea
Gardens; Spa Wells; The Sands; Tides; Cautions;
Bathing; South, North, and Central Tramways; Fishing;
Boating; Dangers; Rides and Drives; Footpaths, &c.
SECTION 15. BIOGRAPHY.
Noble, Eminent and Scientific Individuals
connected with Scarbrough, and of various prominent
and eccentric characters
SECTION 16. FOLK LORE
Bell; man; Waits; Carling Sunday; Easter
Customs; Egg Rolling; " Wrangem"; Peaseholm Hill;
Bristol Water; Plough Monday; St. Mark's Eve;
Hearth and Chimney Money; Caulking Kiss; A Weary
Wife; Two Siege Occurrences; Tossing the Mayor in a
Blanket; Peaseholm Ruin and Legend; Strange Occur;
rence at Sea; Monster Pike; Gentleman and Traveller;
The Old Housekeeper; Cherry; coloured Cat; Smuggling
Anecdotes; Wise Man of Scarbrough; The Evil Eye;
Witchcraft; Ghosts; Ducking Stool; Stocks; Pillory;
Cure for Drunkenness; Baptizing a Monkey; The Plague;
Persecuted Quakers; Events from 1434, &c.
FOOTPATHS five miles from Scarbrough
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