St. Sampson’s Church consists of a lower nave and chancel with north and south aisles to both, extending nearly to the west base of the tower. The architecture of the church is in the decorated and the perpendicular styles. King Richard III., in 1393, granted the advowson of this church to the Vicars Choral of York Minster. The present Vicar (1901) is the Rev. William Haworth, one of the Vicars Choral of the Minster, to whom I am indebted for information respecting the Registers of St. Sampson’s Church and the Church of Holy Trinity, King’s Court, or Christ’s. Mr. Councillor John Earle Wilkinson, “mine host” of the “Garrick’s Head” Hotel, Low Petergate, York, who was the Guardian of the Poor for the old Parish of St. Sampson (as he is now the Guardian for Ward No. 2 of the United Parish of York), kindly informed me on the 10th July, 1901, that the following streets are in the Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Sampson. Hence we may conclude that it was in a house in one of these streets that were spent the earliest years of Edward Oldcorne, the son of John Oldcorne, Tiler, and of Elizabeth, his wife:—— (1) Church Street, a street between the Market Place (which Market Place is formed by St. Sampson’s Square and Parliament Street) and Goodramgate towards Monk Bar. Here is St. Sampson’s Church. (2) Patrick Pool, to the east of St. Sampson’s Church. (3) The right-hand side of Newgate, leading into High Jubbergate (formerly Jews-Gate). (4) Little Shambles and Pump Yard. (5) That part of Parliament Street on the south-west which includes the site of the York City and County Bank. (6) That part of Parliament Street on the north-east which includes Mr. F. H. Vaughan’s “Clock” Hotel. (7) Silver Street, to the west of St. Sampson’s Church, connecting Church Street with High Jubbergate. (8) On the north side of Church Street, opposite St. Sampson’s Church, Swinegate. Finkle Street. (9) Back (or Little) Swinegate, between Swinegate and Finkle Street. (10) That part of Little Stonegate which includes the back part of the premises of Messrs. Myers and Burnell, Coachbuilders, and the Model Lodging House opposite. (11) Coffee Yard. (12) The top part of Grape Lane (leading into Low Petergate), which adjoins Coffee Yard and the north end of Swinegate. (13) St. Sampson’s Square (forming part of the Market Place). Some of the old Elizabethan dwelling-houses and shops in these streets and yards, built of oak (doubtless from the famous Galtres Forest, northward of York), with their projecting stories of lath and plaster, happily, are still standing, “rich with the spoils of time,” and the eyes of Edward Oldcorne must have, many a time and oft, gazed upon them at that momentous period of life when “the child is father of the man.”