Excerpt from History, Directory and Gazetteer, of the County of York, Vol. 1 of 2: With Select Lists of the Merchants and Traders of London, and the Principal Commercial and Manufacturing Towns of England; And a Variety of Other Commercial Information; Also a Copious List of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Yorkshire; West Riding The mutation of human aflhirs is in nothing more con spiccona than III the pages of a Directory even while we write changes are taking place; and at the end of three or four years, another Directory of Yorkshire will be required, which, it is' our intention periodically to collect and to supply. 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.