. The history of the ancient borough of Pontefract, containing an interesting account of its castle, and the three different sieges it sustained, during the civil war, with notes and pedigrees, of some of the most distinguished royalists and parliamentarians, chiefly drawn from manuscripts never before published . S. OKjLES CH1T] Market- riao 8S j;,.tler,..,rtl,,:.T.«l. HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT. 365 cliartier, it must have been built some time part of it is said to have belonged to thecanons of St. Oswald, but he, by the hand ofArchbishop Thurston, deprived the canons oftheir pa
. The history of the ancient borough of Pontefract, containing an interesting account of its castle, and the three different sieges it sustained, during the civil war, with notes and pedigrees, of some of the most distinguished royalists and parliamentarians, chiefly drawn from manuscripts never before published . S. OKjLES CH1T] Market- riao 8S j;,.tler,..,rtl,,:.T.«l. HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT. 365 cliartier, it must have been built some time part of it is said to have belonged to thecanons of St. Oswald, but he, by the hand ofArchbishop Thurston, deprived the canons oftheir part, and gave the whole to the priory ofSt. John here. It is singular that the name given to thischurch in the above mentioned charter, is thatof St. Mary. The same name is given to itin the will of William Hagwyk, as late as thebeginning of the fifteenth century. As therewas a chantry to ,the blessed virgin, is this thereason why it is called by her name!^ Or isthis the original name, and that of St. Gilesonly given to it, because situated near theground where the annual fair was kept on day? Leland informs us that it was called St. Leo-nards * in the frith, or wood; from which it maybe iInferred that at the time of its erection, thetown lay around the church of All-Saints. Thismust have been long anterior to the time
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