Excerpt from A Week in the Yorkshire DalesRipon was selected as my starting-place, a pretty town on the banks of the Yore, and a cathedral dominating over it like a guardian genius. It possesses that quiet air of respectability which alone is the property of cathedral towns in England. Here it was that Norton and Markenfield displayed at the market cross the banner of the five wounds of our Lord at the memorable rising of the north in 1569. Here, too, it was in former years that the spurrier exercised his craft, and hence the ancient proverb originated: As true steel as Ripon rowels.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.