Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Yorkshire; also attrib.

1691		N. Ward ‘The Poet’s Ramble after Riches’ in Writings (1704) 16: Show me, you Whip-shire Northern Clown, / His Worships Room, with Bed of Down.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Whip-shire Yorkshire.
c.1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: Whimpshire Yorkshire.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant [as cit. a.1790].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. [as cit. a.1790].
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1890		York Herald 12 Apr. 12/5: Yorkshire is known as Whipshire.