YORK.
The City of York anciently called Eboracum, is seated upon the ri∣ver Ʋre, which we call Ouse, in the VVest-riding of this County, and is the second City of England, both for fame and greatness; a pleasant large and Stately place, all well fortified, and beautifully adorned, as well with private as publick edifices, and rich and populous with all; seated on the river Ouse, which cutteth it as it were in twain, both parts being joyned together with a fair stone-bridge, consisting of high and mighty arches: a City of great fame in the Roman times, and of as eminent reputation in all ages since, and in the several turnes and changes which have befallen this Kingdom under the Saxons, Danes, and Normans, hath still preserved its ancient lustre; adorned it was with an Archie∣piscopal See, in the time of the Brittains, nor stooped it lower, when the Saxons received the Faith, Richard the second, laying unto it a little Territory on the VVest side thereof, made it a county of it self; in which the Archbishops of York enjoyed the rights of Palatines: and for a further lustre to it, Henry the eighth appointed here a councel for the Government of the Northern parts, consisting of a Lord Presi∣dent, certain Councellors, a Secretary and other Officers, and yet in none of these hath York been more fortunate then that it adorned so many Princes of the Imperial line of Germany, and blood Royal of England, with stile and attribute of