Excerpt from The Antiquities of York City, and the Civil Government Thereof: With a List of All the Mayors and Bayliffs, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, From the Time of King Edward the First, to This Present Year, 1719; Collected From the Papers of Christopher Hildyard, Esq. The noble Lords, the Inheritors of his Name, Honour, and Ejlate, were for many Tears Reprejintatives in Parliament for the County of tor K, and always hallo particular Rejpe l to the Honour and Interefi of the City And your jilf, Sir, after many liars faithful Service to the Crown and Nation, in Tour Difcharge of the j veral Commands Tau bad in the Sm-fernice, ' and after having had the, Honour offlrving his Royal Highnefs Prince goerge, our then mall Gracious Queen's Confort, ' atone 0 his Honourable Council at the Admiralty Board, ' out of the 4 E lion Ton bare to it, choje to make Tour Retirement in this City, and, become a Member of the Corporation, where Tau had not long rejicled, before the Citizens became acquainted with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.