September 2020

Descriptions of Hull 16th to 18th centuries 2 (17/09/’20).

Like his monarch a few months later (Leland didn’t make clear the dates of his descriptions so am making an assumption) Leland travelled to Hull form Beverley although, unlike Henry VIII, he detoured through Cottingham. His initial comments on Hull show but a vague knowledge of Hull’s history ‘The towne of Kingeston was in the

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