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English: Engraving by Haynes (?) of Fossgate (?) York

From "History of Hull" - "East Prospect of the Royal Town of Kingston upon Hull" - after contents before chapter 1 - description of plate: (quoted verbatim from source)

AT the Top, on the Left Hand, is a Representation of Part of an old Monastery, as supposing it to have been Meaux Abbey ; because from the Abbot of that Place, the Royal Founder King Edward the First purchased the Ground where Kingston-upon-Hull now stands : The King is also portray'd as hunting with his Nobles, &c.

On the Right Hand is delineated the Effigy of King WILLIAM III. of Ever-Glorious Memory.

Beneath is the Prospect of the Town itself : And the Figures 1, 2, 3, &c. interspers'd here and there, denote the following Particulars, viz.

1. Part of Lincolnshire.

2. HUMBER.

3. South Block-House.

4. The Garrison.

5. Governour's House.

6. Soldiers Barracks.

7. H. Trinity Church.

8. Old Guard House.

9. St. Mary's Church.

10. The Magazine.

11. North-Bridge.

12. Sugar-House.

13. Drypool Church.

14. New-Cut.

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Source History of Hull (Annales Regioduni Hullini) [1735] , 1869 reprint https://archive.org/details/historyofhullann00gent
Author Thomas Gent (illustrations may not be by Gent)

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