. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. h soaring out of the Wint has depicted it thus most delightfully in oneof the three of his works in the Dixon Bequest atBethnal Green, as it lies amid trees beyond the yellowflat, and with a dim blue distance beyond. Thecountry all about it, though without any strikingfeatures, is pleasant, rich, and fruitful. Away beyondthe Hull, amid beautiful woods, lies the site, and verylittle more—for a few broken walls and a gateway,with the evidences of moats, are all that remain—ofthe Cistercian abbey of Meaux, which was founded,in sat
. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. h soaring out of the Wint has depicted it thus most delightfully in oneof the three of his works in the Dixon Bequest atBethnal Green, as it lies amid trees beyond the yellowflat, and with a dim blue distance beyond. Thecountry all about it, though without any strikingfeatures, is pleasant, rich, and fruitful. Away beyondthe Hull, amid beautiful woods, lies the site, and verylittle more—for a few broken walls and a gateway,with the evidences of moats, are all that remain—ofthe Cistercian abbey of Meaux, which was founded,in satisfaction for his not having joined the Crusadeas he had vowed to do, by the same William le Groswho built Scarborough Castle. It is on record thatthe Abbot of Meaux and twenty-two monks succumbedin the Black Death of 1349. Their house is reportedto have been very fine, as in such a neighbourhood weshould have expected it to be, but the destructionthereof has approached near to completeness. On theother side of Beverley, two and a half miles away to. y, o < < Beverley 299 the north-west, is the pretty village of Leconfield, withthe site, marked by its moat, and nothing more, ofLeconfield Castle, a great house of the Percys, towhom the estate came by marriage with one of thesisters and co-heiresses of the last Peter de Brus ofSkelton, upon the division of the Brus fee. Lelandsaw the house, and describes it as built partly oftimber and partly of stone and brick. The neighbour-hood of Beverley, besides these, has many otherplaces of interest, too, but to these it is beyond ourscope to refer. CHAPTER XVI. HULL AND THE HUMBER. Reasons for the Rise of Hull—The Destruction of Ravenser bythe Sea—Effect of the River and the Tide upon the HullRiver—The Situation of Hull in regard to Inland Waterways—Edward I.—-The Foundation of Kingston-upon-HuU—TheDe la Poles—Mediaeval History—The Pilgrimage of Grace—The Taking of Hallam by Alderman John Eland—The Fight—T
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