Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events

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Baring-Gould Sabine. Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events

Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events

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PREFACE

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION

YORKSHIRE ODDITIES AND INCIDENTS

THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK

PETER PRIESTLY, THE WAKEFIELD PARISH CLERK

PROPHET WROE

BISHOP-DYKE POND.[1]

SNOWDEN DUNHILL, THE CONVICT

JAMES NAYLOR, THE QUAKER.[1]

"OLD THREE LAPS."

CHRISTOPHER PIVETT

DAVID TURTON, MUSICIAN AT HORBURY

JOHN BARTENDALE, THE PIPER

BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH.[1]

"PEG PENNYWORTH."

PETER BARKER, THE BLIND JOINER

PETER BARKER,

THE WHITE HOUSE

JEMMY HIRST; AN ODDITY.[1]

THE TRAGEDY OF BENINGBROUGH HALL

A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER

MR. WIKES, OF LEASEHOLME.[1]

THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON-PUBLICAN

JOB SENIOR, THE HERMIT OF RUMBOLD'S MOOR.[1]

NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT

THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON

OLD JOHN MEALY-FACE

THE BOGGART OF HELLEN-POT

JONATHAN MARTIN, THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER.[1]

BROTHER JUCUNDUS

MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS

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Sabine Baring-Gould

Published by Good Press, 2020

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"Owing to severe illness in my family, I was not able to reply to your note earlier. I will now try and tell you what I have seen and been told on the subject of the ghosts at Holy Trinity Church, Micklegate.

"A York lady, now dead, told me she remembered seeing it when a child, and that she once read an account of it in an old History of York: she thought the book must have been published in the seventeenth century.

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