Yorkshire Battles

by Edward Lamplough

Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

This work consists of a series of carefully written papers, reprinted from the Wakefield Free Press and other Journals.

CONTENTS:

An Outline History of Yorkshire. By Thomas Frost. The Cow-Devil: A Legend of Craven. By William Brockie. The First Anglo-Saxon Poet. By John H. Leggott, F.R.H.S. The Battle of Brunanburgh. By Frederick Ross, F.R.H.S. Old Customs at York. By George Benson. Elizabethan Gleanings. By Aaron Watson. The Fight for the Hornsea Fishery. By T. Tindall Wildridge. Folk Assemblies. By John Nicholson. Quaint Gleanings from the Parish Register-Chest of Kirkby Wharfe. By the Rev. Richard Wilton, M.A. The Wakefield Mysteries. By William Henry Hudson. A Biographical Romance. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. Some Scraps and Shreds of Yorkshire Superstitions. By W. Sydney, F.R.S.L. The Salvation of Holderness. By Frederick Ross, F.R.H.S. Yorkshire Fairs and Festivals. By Thomas Frost. James Nayler, the Mad Quaker who claimed to be the Messiah. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. Duke Ricard’s Doom: A Legend of Sandal Castle. By Edward Lamplough. Obsolete Industries of the East Riding. By John Nicholson. Bolton Abbey: Its History and Legends. By Alfred Chamberlain, B.A. To Bolton Abbey. By the Rev. E. G. Charlesworth.

A CAREFULLY COMPILED INDEX.