Nottingham is so farre before it for its size—its true Nottingham is not a quarter so bigg, Else y^e Streetes and buildings are so Much Nobler as Can be jmagin’d; it Lookes better att the approach because you see the towers off y^e gates and Severall Churches in Compassing y^e Minster and all y^e Windmills round y^e town of w^{ch} there are many. Y^e River runns through the town and so its divided, y^e buildings Look No better than the outskirts off London Wappen &c. The Bridg is fine arches and built on with houses; the Pavements w^{ch} is Esteem’d the Chiefe part of town where y^e Market house and town hall stands is so mean that Southwarke is much before it. There are a Great Many pretty Churches 16 in Number, but the minster is a noble building and holds in view at Least 30 miles before you Come to it. I saw it and also at y^t distance, and saw just by it a high hill or ffortification it appeared to be, but when I Came to York I found it to be only a very high hill w^{th} stately high trees on it as thick as Could be, a Noble Grove. The Minster is very Large and fine of Stone, Carv’d all the outside, 3 high towers above the Leads; I was in one of them, the highest, and it was 262 steps and those very Steep Steps, there is a Gallery round the middle of the Church about halfe way that goes off these steps of the tower, where you may go round and Looke down into the body of y^e Church and y^t was so great a distance that the men and Ladyes that were Walking below look’d like Pigmyes a very little to us above. On the Leads of y^e tower Shews a vast prospect of the Country, at Least 30 mile round, you see all over the town y^t Lookes as a building too much Cluster’d together, y^e Streetes being so narrow—some were pretty Long. There is another river w^{ch} fills the ditches round the town Called Ffosse. In the Minster there is the Greatest Curiosity for Windows I ever saw, they are so large and so Lofty, those in the Quire at y^e End and on Each side that is 3 storys high and painted very Curious with History of y^e Bible; the painting is very fine such as was in Kings Chapple in Cambridge, but the Loftyness of y^e windows is more than I ever saw any Where Else and by all accounts is peculiar; There is such another Window at the End of the Cross jsle just by y^e Quire—all y^e other Windows are of y^e usual Size of other Cathedralls. Ye body of y^e Church is large and I thinke Larger than any Cathedrall I have seen, bigger than Winchester Cathedrall. All these Isles are broad the people of ffashion use them to Walke in and on that account its much [something left out] they keep it not Cleaner, the Quire has a very good Carving in Wood about it, there is a very good Organ, the table cloth and Cushons and books at y^e Comunion table was Crimson velvet and hangings, and its Embroyder’d very Richly w^{th} gold of a Great depth, and Gold ffringe at y^e bottom: this was Given y^e Church by Doctor Lamplue y^t was the