Excerpt from Pontefract With the exception of York, no town in Yorkshire is more closely connected with English history than Pontefract, which is as Dean Swift said of it, in all our histories. Yet, curiously enough, no history of town or castle has yet appeared, save from local printing presses. Boothroyd published one such volume in 1807; Fox, another, twenty years later. The one man who could have written a really great book about the place, Richard Holmes, certainly one of the most able archae ologists of his day, spent his energies in numerous publications, all valuable, but unconnected, and all serving to show the riches of the mine in which some future historian may yet delve to more purpose. Pontefract is worthy a great book; what follows in these pages can only be regarded as a mere outline of 'the story of one of the most remarkable of our most ancient boroughs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.