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CELEBEATED AECHBISHOPS.
Since the consecration of
this See there have been eightysix
Archbishops, amongst whom may be mentioned the
following
Paulinns (625), the Apostle of the Northumbrians and
first Archbishop.
Egbert (731), the friend of Alcuin and literature, and
founder of the old Minster Library.
St. William (1153), canonised 125 years after his death.
Geoffrey Plantagenet (1190), natural son of Henry 11.
and Fair Eosamond.
Walter de Grey (1216), who purchased the manor of
Thorpe, now called Bishopthorpe, and built the palace there.
John Thoresby (1352). It was in this prelate's time that
the constant disputes for precedence between the Sees of
Canterbury and York were decided by the Pope, who made
the Archbishop of the former, Primate of All England.
Eichard Scrope (1398), betrayed and beheaded for rebellion.
George Neville (1464) was brother to the celebrated
Earl of Warwick, the king-maker.
Thomas de Eotherham (1480), having died of the plague^
was buried in effigy in the Cathedral.
Thomas Wolsey (1514), the celebrated Cardinal.
Nicholas Heath (1555), the last Eoman Catholic Archbishop,
was patronised by Queen Mary.
Thos. Young (1561), a most avaricious man, who took
down the great hall in the palace at York for the sake of
the lead that covered it.
Acceptus Frewen (1660), appointed to the See after it
had remained vacant for ten years ;
he lived in a state of
celibacy, and would not even have a female servant.
John Dolben (1683) was a soldier in his younger days,
and served as ensign at the battle of Marston Moor, where he
was dangerously wounded by a musket ball.
The Hon. Edward Vernon Harcourt (1808). His Grace
was born in 1757, educated at Westminster School, and
afterwards removed to Christ Church, Oxford. He was
Chaplain to the King, and Prebendary of Gloucester. In
1785 he was appointed Canon of Christ Church ;
in 1791,