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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n Earls; Topcliffe, the honour of thePercys, Thirsk of the Mowbrays, Tanfield of theMarmions, Skipton of the Cliffords, Middleham of theFitz-Hughs and Nevilles, Helmsley of the Roos, Mashamand Bolton of the two Scropes, Sheffield of the Furnivalsand Talbots, and Wakefield of the Duke of York. Therewere also numerous castles and honours that united toform the great Lancaster duchy, and many minor lord-ships.2 The Church also wrought wonders in the shire, andby her influence turned the people from barbaric andsavage ways. In no other county did monasticismexercise so Arm a hold as in Yorkshire, and the remainsof the numerous beautiful and majestic abbeys testify tothe noble work they accomplished in a country distracted 1 Some say that Pontefract was so named from Pomfrete, de Lacysbirthplace in Normandy. Others, with more reason, contend that ittakes its name from the broken bridge across the Aire which delayedthe Conquerors progress. 2 Bishop Stubbs, Constitutional History, iii., 528.
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The West Front of York Minster in 1809. Yorkshire 53 and ruined by war. A whole chapter would be neededto tell of all the foundations that arose like fair flowersin gloomy and deserted places. Most of them weretwelfth-century structures. Several Orders of monks wererepresented, but the Cistercians, from the rigidity of theirrule, seem to have found most favour among the sturdyYorkshiremen. We find them at Byland, at Fountains,where a colony of monks from the Benedictine monasteryof St. Mary at York established themselves, preferringthe austere rule of the Cistercians to the lax disciplineof their own order; and again at Jervaulx, Rievaulx,Kirkstall. Besides these there were Bolton Priory,originally founded at Embsay for Augustinian canons,and removed by Alice, daughter of the founder, Williamde Meschines, to its present beautiful situation overagainst the spot where her only son was drowned in theWharfe; Easby Abbey near Richmond and Egglestone-on-the-Tees for Praemonstratensians, Gui

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