Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events
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YORKSHIRE ODDITIES.
INCIDENTS AND STRANGE EVENTS
S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.
AUTHOR OF MEHALAH, ICELAND: ITS SCENES AND SAGAS, OLD COUNTRY LIFE, ETC.
There be such a company of wilful gentlemen within Yorkshire as there be not in all England besides. — Abbot of York to Cromwell, 1556, Rolls House MS.
FIFTH EDITION
London METHUEN AND CO. 18 BURY STREET, W.C. 1900
S. Baring-Gould
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Yorkshire Oddities
PREFACE.
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
CONTENTS.
THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK.
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PETER PRIESTLY, THE WAKEFIELD PARISH CLERK.
PROPHET WROE.
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SNOWDEN DUNHILL, THE CONVICT.
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"OLD THREE LAPS."
CHRISTOPHER PIVETT.
DAVID TURTON, MUSICIAN AT HORBURY.
JOHN BARTENDALE, THE PIPER.
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"PEG PENNYWORTH."
PETER BARKER, THE BLIND JOINER OF HAMPSWAITE.
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THE WHITE HOUSE.
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THE TRAGEDY OF BENINGBROUGH HALL.
A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER.
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THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON-PUBLICAN.
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NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT.
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THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON.
OLD JOHN MEALY-FACE.
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BROTHER JUCUNDUS.
MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS.
