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A MEDIAEVAL CITY

The Minster stood within its Close, one of the
four gateways of which, College Street Arch, remains.
This part of the city around the Minster was
enclosed because it was under the jurisdiction of the
Liberty of St. Peter.

BISHOP A2sTD CANONS.

From Richard II.'s "Book of Hours."

Originally founded in 627 by Edwin, King of
Northumbria, the Minster had * been rebuilt and
enlarged from time to time. It received its final and
present form in the fifteenth century. At one
time the Nave was rebuilt: at the same time there
was built, near but separate from the main building,