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Contributions Towards a History of Driffield and the Surrounding Wolds District, in the East Riding of the County of York
Contributions Towards a History of Driffield and the Surrounding Wolds District in the East Riding of the County of York Author:Frederick Ross General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: T. Holderness Subjects: Driffield (Humberside, England) Wolds, The (England) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this ... more »book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DADE, The Rev. WILLIAM, Topographer, Burton Agnes. Born circa 1740; died 1790. Rector of Burton Agnes, formerly Rector of St. Mary's, Castlegate, York, and of Barmston, Holderness. The greater portion of hia leisure time was spent in collecting materials for a History of Holderness, for which he printed proposals for publication, and caused a series of plates to be engraved, but died before completing the work, and they were placed in the hands of George Poulaon, the historian of Beverley, who compiled from them his " History of the Seigniory of Holderness," Published in 4 half-volumes, 1840 and other dates. DANIEL, GEORGE, Poet, Beswick. The 2nd son of Sir Ingleby Daniel, Kt., of Beswick; born 1616 ; died 1657 ; married Elizabeth, daughter of William Ireland, of Nostel, and had issue a son and three daughters. He lived through the great civil war, fighting on the Royalist side, and was known aa " the Cavalier Poet;" gaining much reputation by the publication of " Poems on several occasions. Apud Beswick, Anno. Domini. CTQ TgC Xlvi ;" (sic), but for a couple of centuries was almost forgotten, until 1878, when the Rev. Alex. B. Grosart, of Blackburn, published an edition of his works, in 4 vols., quarto, entitled "The Poems of George Daniel, Esq., of Beswick, Yorkshire, 1616-1657, from the original MSS. in the British Museum, edited, with notes and illustrations, by the Rev. A. B. Grosart, with prefatory- memoirs, pedigree, and portrait from a miniature in the British Museum." DRAPER, WILLIAM, Beswick...« less