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Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the Metropolitical Church of York: Illustrated by a Series of Engravings of Views, Elevations, Plans and Details of the Architecture of That Edifice With Biographical Anecdotes of the Archbishops
To elucidate the history of the Cathedral of York, we must necessarily inquire into the origin and progress of Christianity in the northern parts of Britain; but to do this effectively and comprehensively, would involve us in a disquisition too diffuse for the object and intention of the present work. Our more immediate purpose is the Cathedral, or Minster; the history of which is so blended and combined with other collateral and coincident subjects, of a provincial and ecclesiastical nature, that we must occasionally advert to them.
From a very remote period, York has occupied a distinguished place among the cities of Britain. Soon after the Roman conquest of the island it was chosen as a seat of imperial. Government and residence. Among other causes that occasioned this selection, was its eligibility of situation.
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