a market and borough town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, about a mile from the river Hull, with which it communicates by means of a canal called the Beverley Beck. It is a very neat and handsome town, consisting principally of one long wide street upwards of a mile in length, and terminated by an ancient gateway. The magnificent collegiate church of St John is in size and splendour superior to many cathedrals. Having been erected at different times it exhibits various styles of Gothic architecture. The west front is said by Rickman to be the finest of its kind in England. It is 334 feet in length from east to west; the breadth of the nave and side aisles is 64 feet; the transept is 167 feet long; and the two towers at the west end are 200 feet in height. St Mary's church is also an exceedingly handsome and spacious Gothic building. The market-place, which comprises an area of nearly four acres, is ornamented with an octangular market-cross. The grammar-school is of great antiquity, and has two fellowships, six scholarships, and three exhibitions at St John's College, Cambridge. There are several national and two infant schools, Blue-coat school, mechanics' institute, newsroom, four banks, savings bank, dispensary, theatre, jail, &c. Its trade is chiefly confined to tanned leather, oatmeal, malt, corn, and coal. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday. It is governed by a mayor, six aldermen, and eighteen councillors; and returns two members to parliament. Pop. (1851) of parliamentary borough, 10,058; of municipality, 8915.

a sea-port of Massachusetts in North America, connected with Salem by a bridge. It is sixteen miles N.E. of Boston. Pop. 4689.

John of (Joannes Beverlocius), archbishop of York in the eighth century, was descended of a noble family at Harpham in Northumberland, and was one of the most learned men of his time. He was abbot of the monastery of St Hilda, when his merit recommended him to the favour of Alfred king of Northumberland, who in 685 advanced him to the see of Hagustald or Hexham, and in 687 translated him to the archbishopric of York. This prelate was tutor to the famous Bede, and lived in the strictest friendship with Acca and other Anglo-Saxon doctors, several of whom he engaged to write comments on the Holy Scriptures. In 704 he founded a college at Beverley for secular priests; and after he had governed the see of York thirty-four years he divested himself of his episcopal character, and retired to Beverley, where he died four years after, on the 7th of May 721. Bede and other monkish writers ascribe several miracles to him. He wrote, 1.Pro Luce expomenda; 2. Homiliae in Evangelica; 3. Epistolae ad Hildam Abbatisam; Epistolae ad Herebaldum, Andenum, et Bertinum.