When the suburbs burned: sources, links, etc

The following may be of interest to readers of the ebook When the suburbs burned: a walk around 17th century York.

Many of the books and pamphlets quoted in the ebook are available online from the Internet Archive and Google Books. Links in the lists below were carefully compiled in 2011, with a few later additions, and updated again in 2022. I hope they continue to lead to the relevant texts.

Journals and memoirs

• The letters and journals of Robert Baillie, ed D Laing, vol 2 (1841)
• Robert Douglas’s diary, in Memoirs by James Burns, bailie of the city of Glasgow, 1644-1661. [Followed by] The … battel of York [and] The diary of Robert Douglas when with the Scotish army in England (1832)
• Sir Thomas Herbert, Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of king Charles I, (3rd edn) (1815)
• Christopher Hildyard’s account of York in the 17th century is incorporated in James Torre, The antiquities of York city, and the civil government thereof … Collected from the papers of Christopher Hildyard, esq., with notes and observations (1719)
• The Autobiography of Joseph Lister (Ed T Wright) (1842)
• Henry Slingsby, The Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, Bart. (ed D Parsons) (1836)
• Mary Ward: extract is taken from a ‘Briefe Relation’, quoted in Peter Wenham’s The Great and Close Siege of York, 1644 (see above). See also (online at archive.org) Mary C E Chambers, The life of Mary Ward, Vol 2 (1885), p487-491

York

• Ingram’s palace:  Sir William Brereton, Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, England, Scotland, and Ireland (ed Edward Hawkins) (1844) and ‘York Palace, a vanished Jacobean Mansion’, in York Historian, vol 8 (1988)
• St Anthony’s Hospital: Robert Davies, The History of St. Anthony’s Hospital (1869)
• The Fairfax Mansion/Duke’s Palace (location of): Excavations in York, 1973-1974, Second Interim Report, ed P V Addyman (1976)
• 17th century petition for a university: The Fairfax correspondence: Memoirs of the reign of Charles the First, vol 2, ed G W Johnson (1848)
• Francis Drake, Eboracum: or, the history and antiquities of the City of York (1736)
• William Hargrove, A new guide for strangers and residents in the city of York (1844)

Thomas Fairfax

• Thomas, third Lord Fairfax, ‘A Short Memorial of the Northern Actions …1642 till the year 1644’ in Stuart Tracts, 1603-1693
• The Poems of Thomas, Third Lord Fairfax, ed E B Reed (1909)
• M Guizot,  Monk’s contemporaries: Biographic studies on the English Revolution (1851)
• Andrew Hopper, ‘Black Tom': Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (2007)
• Clements R Markham, A life of the great Lord Fairfax (1870)
• Epitaph by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Select tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, vol 1 (1815)
• Gerry Webb, Fairfax of York (2001), p26-30 (available I think from the shop at Fairfax House, Castlegate)

17th century pamphlets/news-books – siege of York

• An exact relation of the siege before Yorke of the taking of the suburbs … at the leaguer before York, the 6. and 7. of June (London, 1644) (PDF)
• Newes from the siege before Yorke : Being a letter from an eminent person out of the Leaguer there; dated the 16. of June. 1644. Together with the articles for the rendring of it up … (London, 1644) (PDF)

Unless the situation has changed when you read this, it would seem that the other pamphlets relating to the siege of York are available online only via Early English Books Online, which is accessible only through subscription (via participating universities and colleges), so unfortunately I’m not able to link to them:

• A Continuation of True Intelligence from the English and Scottish Forces . . . now beleaguering York, from the eighth of this instant June to the 17th . . .  Sim[eon] Ashe and William Goode (London, 1644)
• A Continuation of True Intelligence from the English and Scottish Forces in the North, for the service of King and Parliament, and now beleaguring York … Sim[eon] Ash (London, 1644)
• A particular Relation of the most remarkable Occurrences from the United Forces in the North … Sent from the Leagure before Yorke. Sim[eon] Ash and Will[iam] Goode (London, 1644)

17th century pamphlets/news-books – general

• Many are available online, including:
• A witty ansvver, and vindication to a foolish pamphlet, intituled New orders nevv, agreed upon by a parliament of Round-heads. Or, Old orders old, newly vampt by a Parliament of rattle-heads.: Confirmed by the brethren of the malignant party now assembled at Rattle heads Court, a way-bit from Yorke … (London, 1642)
• The humble Petition of the Gentry Ministers and Freeholders of the County of Yorke … Presented to his Majesty the 5 of April, 1642 (York, 1642)
• His Majesties declaration, in answer to a declaration of the Lords and Commons … (York, 1642)
• The Petition of Both Houses … Presented to His Majestie at York, March 26, 1642 (London, 1642)
• His Majesties Declaration to the Ministers, Free-holders, Farmers … of the Country of Yorke … on Friday the  third of June 1642 (London, 1642)
• The King’s Cabinet opened: Or, certain packets of secret letters & papers … taken in his Cabinet at Nasby- Field … by Victorious Sr Thomas Fairfax … (London, 1645)
• King Charls his speech made upon the scaffold at Whitehall-Gate Immediately before his Execution … With a Relation of the manner of his going to Execution (London, 1649)

May also be of interest …

• Peter Wenham’s The Great and Close Siege of York, 1644 (1970) – available in York libraries
• For information on the wider conflict, see www.british-civil-wars.co.uk and Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: A People’s History (2007)
• And to watch: ‘The Devil’s Whore’ (2008), available on DVD. Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. Not the most factually accurate depiction of events, but a fabulous and engaging adventure starring many famous and well-respected actors.
• An archaeological dig featured in a BBC TV programme (on YouTube) may be of interest: York mass grave skeletons were Civil War soldiers. Widely reported in newspapers as ‘Cromwell’s soldiers’, even though they were Lord Fairfax’s soldiers. Which just shows we need to read more about the Fairfaxes. Here’s an in-depth study of one of them:
• Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution, Andrew Hopper (2007). Or how about historical/romantic fiction based on Thomas Fairfax’s life, and relationship with his wife? Search out Rider of the White Horse, by  Rosemary Sutcliff (1959). York Libraries used to have a copy, available on request.