MONUMENTAL ANTIQUITIES

OF

GREAT GRIMSBY.

AN ESSAY

TOWARDS ASCERTAINING ITS ORIGIN AND

ANCIENT POPULATION.

CONTAINING ALSO

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE TWO MAGNIFICENT CHURCHES AND THE FIVE
RELIGIOUS HOUSES, WHICH WERE ONCE THE GRACE AND ORNA-
MENT OF THE TOWN; AN ABSTRACT OF THE CHARTERS
AND PRIVILEGES OF THE BOROUGH; BIOGRAPHICAL
NOTICES OF EMINENT NATIVES OF GRIMSBY;

LISTS OF HIGH STEWARDS, MEMBERS
OF PARLIAMENT, &c.

The whole collected from original and authentic Sources.

BY GEORGE OLIVER,

VICAR OF CLEE,

DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD KENSINGTON, AUTHOR OF
THE ANTIQUITIES OF FREE MASONRY," &c.

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HULL:

PRINTED BY ISAAC WILSON, LOWGATE.

1825.

19503