Produced by Petra A, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's Notes: All footnotes have been moved to the end of the text. Italics in the original are represented by _underscores_. The original is richly illustrated; the illustration captions have been preserved in this text version. To view the full illustrations, please see the HTML version.] GRAY DAYS AND GOLD [Illustration: The MM Co.] [Illustration: YORK CATHEDRAL] GRAY DAYS AND GOLD _IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND_ BY WILLIAM WINTER [Illustration] New Edition, Revised, with Illustrations New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1896 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY MACMILLAN AND CO. _Illustrated Edition_, COPYRIGHT, 1896, THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped June, 1892. Reprinted November, 1892; January, June, August, 1893; April, 1894. Illustrated edition, revised throughout, in crown 8vo, set up and electrotyped June, 1896. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. TO Augustin Daly REMEMBERING A FRIENDSHIP OF MANY YEARS I DEDICATE THIS BOOK "_Est animus tibi Rerumque prudens, et secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus_"[1] [Illustration] PREFACE TO THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF GRAY DAYS AND GOLD