If the Author of "Spadacrene Anglica" could see our modern Harrogate,for whose existence he is to no small extent responsible, he would bejustly entitled to consider his labours as well spent, however surprisedhe might be at the change that had taken place in the village as he knewit in the year 1626. For so was Harrogate in those years, a smallscattered hamlet, part of that great Royal Forest of Knaresborough,extending westward from the town of Knaresborough for about 20 milestowards Bolton Abbey, with an average depth of about 8 miles from Northto South, a Royal Forest, as Grainge in his History thereof premises,from the year 1130 u