Collected from the original RECORDS of the ABBEY, and other authentic MEMOIRS, never before made public.

CONTAINING,

Not only the Hiftory of WHITBY and the Country adjacent, but also the Original and
Antiquity of many particular Families and Places in other Parts of YORKSHIRE,

DIVIDED INTO THREE BOOK S.

Book I. The Hiftory of Whitby, and of Whitby Abbey, before the Conqueft.
Book II. The Continuation of that History to the Diffolution of the Monastery.
Book III. The further Continuation of that History to the End of the Year 1776,
with the present State of Whitby, &c. &c. &c.

Nefcire quod antequam natus effes actum eft, id femper effe puerum. CICERO.

By LIONEL

CHARLTON,

TEACHER of the MATHEMATICS at WHITBY.

YORK:

Printed by A. WARD; and fold in London by T. CADELL, in the Strand, and
G. ROBINSON, in Pater-nofter-Row: As alfo by all the Bookfellers in York; and
by J. MONKMAN, Bookseller in Whitby.

M, DCC, LXXIX,

LORD OF THE MANOR of WHITBY:

TO HIS MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

IN THE TOWN OF WHITBY:

TO THE BURGESSES, THE GENTLEMEN AND LADIES, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS

OF WHITBY IN GENERAL:

THIS HISTORY, AS A TESTIMONY OF
GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM,

IS MOST HUMBLY DEDICATED BY,

THEIR OBEDIENT AND

DEVOTED SERVANT,

LIONEL CHARLTON.