Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

MODERN YORK. 35
11. St. Mary's Chapel ; at the White Friars.
12. St. Mary's Chapel ; Marygate.
13. St. Mary Magdalene's ; near Burton Stone.
14. St. Stephen; in the Minster.
15. St. Sepulchre's ; near the Minster.
16. Holy Trinity's Chapel ; Merchants' Hall.
17. St. William's Chapel ; Ouse Bridge.
These abbeys, hospitals, and chapels fell, and with
them eighteen parish churches, the materials and revenues
of all which, were converted to secular uses.* The
number of parish churches alone in York, before the
events of which we are speaking, was forty-one, or as
other records say, forty-three.
Henry appointed a lord president of the north, and a
council; which continued as a dreadful instrument of
oppression till the Commonwealth ; the lord president
residing in the house without Bootham Bar. Henry VIII.
spent twelve days in this city, which was also visited by
Mary and Elizabeth ; in the reign of which latter queen,
a conference was held at York on Scottish affairs. After
the days of " good Queen Bess," King James, I. of Eng
land, and VI. of Scotland, visited York on his way to
London, and was received here with great solemnity and
enthusiasm. The news of the queen's death, we are
informed, was conveyed from London to King James, at
Edinburgh, in two days. This, at first sight, appears im
probable, although the fact is well authenticated ; for on
our high roads of the nineteenth century, the journey can
not be performed in a shorter time ; and till the middle of
last century there were so few roads, and those few were
so execrably bad, that the manufactures of the country were
conveyed from place to place, through bridle-ways, on
pack-horses ! In 1 706, the stage-coach, from York to
London, was four days on the road: and so late as 1763t
it took from twelve to fourteen days to travel from London
Drake.