Walmgate wardmote court, April 1583
Transcribing a few pages of York’s Wardmote Court Book every morning is my daily treat (sad, I know!) The bulk of the surviving 16th-century records run from 1575 to 1586, and now that I’m picking […]
Transcribing a few pages of York’s Wardmote Court Book every morning is my daily treat (sad, I know!) The bulk of the surviving 16th-century records run from 1575 to 1586, and now that I’m picking […]
Just outside the city walls around the Minster is an area of mostly 19th-century brick terraces that is now known as the Groves. In earlier times, this area was known as Paynleys (or Paynelathes) Crofts. […]
One of the things we take for granted in York, but which perhaps seems strange to anyone not from the north, is the way street names here often end in ‘gate’. ‘Gate’ comes from the […]
Leading off the much-photographed Shambles, Little Shambles today is little more than a gap dividing the street from Newgate Market. But in the 16th century it seems that a number of people lived in this […]
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