Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

MODERN YORK. 37
recorder, aldermen and sheriffs, and the twenty-foure, with
all their chiefe officers, and the preacher of the cittie and
towne-clerk, in very comely order, went into the Manor,"
and there presented King James with " a fayre cuppe,
with a cover of silver and gilt, weighing seventie and three
ounces, and, in the same, two hundred angells of gold ;"
a present most graciously received by the monarch ; who",
afterwards, attended divine service at the Minster, and
heard a sermon from the dean, who was bishop of Lime
rick. At ten o'clock, next day, the king went to the Lord
Mayor's house, and there dined with his royal train. After
dinner he walked to the Deanery, and was there enter
tained with a banquet. From thence, he took horse, left
the city, through Micklegate Bar, for Grimstone, the
house of Sir Edward Stanhope, beyond Tadcaster; and,
on arriving at the liberties of the city, took off his glove,
and shook hands with the Lord Mayor, Mr. Robert Water,
whom he knighted next day at Grimstone.
During the unfortunate reign of Charles I., York was
the theatre of many remarkable events. In the year
1639, the king, returning from the war with his Scottish
subjects, directed the walls to be fortified ; and while he
was here with his army, which was quartered in the city
and neighbourhood, frequently inspected the works. On
Good Friday, his majesty touched two hundred persons in
the Minster for the king's evil ;—people, in those credulous
days, believing that Royalty was endowed with the power
of healing ! While Charles was present in the Cathedral,
the bishop of Ely washed the feet of thirty-nine poor aged
men in warm water, and wrapped them in linen cloth ; and,
afterwards, the Bishop of Winchester washed them over
in white wine, wiped and kissed them. As an illus
tration of the loyalty of the times, the following paragraph,
concluding an address, read on the occasion of the royal
visit, by the recorder of York, Thomas Widdrington, Esq.,
on his knees to King Charles, is worth preservation :—
" The memory of King Charles shall ever be sacred unto
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