Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events

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

PREFACE

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION

THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK

PETER PRIESTLY, THE WAKEFIELD PARISH CLERK

PROPHET WROE

BISHOP-DYKE POND.6

SNOWDEN DUNHILL, THE CONVICT

JAMES NAYLOR, THE QUAKER.8

"OLD THREE LAPS."

CHRISTOPHER PIVETT

DAVID TURTON, MUSICIAN AT HORBURY

JOHN BARTENDALE, THE PIPER

BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH.9

"PEG PENNYWORTH."

PETER BARKER, THE BLIND JOINER OF HAMPSWAITE

THE WHITE HOUSE

JEMMY HIRST; ANODDITY.13

THE TRAGEDY OF BENINGBROUGH HALL

A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER

THE ONE-POUND NOTE.16

MR. WIKES, OF LEASEHOLME.18

THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON- PUBLICAN

JOB SENIOR, THEHERMIT OF RUMBOLD'S MOOR.19

NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT

THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON

OLD JOHN MEALY-FACE

THE BOGGART OF HELLEN-POT. ATALE OF THE YORKSHIRE MOORS.23

JONATHAN MARTIN, THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER.24

BROTHER JUCUNDUS

MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS

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This book was well received in Yorkshire and elsewhere when it first appeared, and as it preserved notices of strong characters, records of whom were passing away, and some taken from Chap Books already become scarce, a new edition (the 4th) is issued thoroughly revised and only very slightly curtailed.

In 1869 I was invited to deliver a lecture at Middlesborough, when I met a clergyman who introduced himself to me as an old acquaintance. We had not met for some years, and then he had been a boy at school. About a week after I left Middlesborough I received from him the following letter: —

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Lindsay, finding Wroe was not at the exhibition, pursued him to Greenwich, and an angry meeting ensued.

Next Sunday, Wroe again invaded the chapel of Lindsay, who began to prophesy against him, saying, "I say, in the name of the Lord, you shall shave!" Then John Wroe took the prophetic rod, and thrusting it towards Lindsay, thundered forth, "Dost thou come to defy Israel? The Lord rebuke thee, Satan!"

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