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Sheffield General Infirmary

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Embellished with a Beautiful View of SHEFFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY.

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THE NORTHERN STAR.

No. 13.-For JUNE, 1818.

Topography, Picturesque Scenery, &c.

AN ACCOUNT OF SHEFFIELD.

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SHEFFIELD, or SHEAFFIELD, a town of considerable note for its manufactures, in the deanery of Doncaster, in the diocese and west-riding of the county of York, is pleasantly situated upon an eminence, at the confluence of the rivers Sheaf and Don, over each of which is a stone-bridge. That over the Don is called Lady's-bridge, consisting of three arches, (and leads to Barnsley to the N. and Rotherham to the N. E.,) supposed to be so named from a religious house which anciently stood near it, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which was afterwards converted into almshouses for poor widows: but when the bridge was widened in 1768, these houses were pulled down. The Sheaf-bridge, rebuilt by His Grace Edward Duke of Norfolk, in 1769, consisting of one arch, leads to Sheffield Park, Handsworth, and other places to the east.

At the N.E. part of the town where the two rivers meet, anciently stood the Castle, which with the lordship of Sheffield (as appears by an ancient record) was granted to Thomas Lord Fournyvale, 39 Edward III., to be held by homage and knight-service, and the payment to the King and his heirs of two white hares yearly, on the feast of St. John the Baptist. This castle was demolished in the civil wars. A copy of the capitulation by one Saville, the governor, is still preserved.* There are very few vestiges of this ancient fabric now remaining, except that the streets and places thereabout still retain their original names, as Castle-hill, Castle-field, Castle-fold, Castle-green, Castle-lathe, &c.

After the surrender at York, the Earl of Manchester marched down to Doncaster, and from thence sent Col. John Lilburn to take Tickhill Castle, which surrendered upon summons. The arms found in it were, one iron cannon mounted, and 100 muskets. On August the first, the said Earl sent Major-General Crawford, and Col. Pickering, with part of his forces, viz. 1200 foot, and a regiment of horse, to Sheffield Castle. The castle was a place of great strength, both for its natural situation and fortifications; for it stood on a triangle, guarded on two sides by the rivers Dun and Sheafe; a strong breast-work before the gates, which were palisadoed with a trench twelve feet deep, and eighteen feet wide, which was full of water; and a wall round of five yards thick. The Parliament forces being come near, fired three great shots, which did some execution in the Castle. Then they summoned them to surrender by a trumpeter; but 3 G

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