By FREDERICK ROSS, F.R.H.S.,
Author of “The Ruined Abbeys of England,” “Celebrities
of Yorkshire Wolds,” “Biographia Eboracensis,”
“The Progress of Civilisation,” etc.
It will be observed from the following list of subjects that the work is of wide and varied interest, and will make a permanent contribution to Yorkshire literature:—
CONTENTS:
| The Alum Workers. | The Murderer’s Bride. |
| Blackfaced Clifford. | The Orphan Heiress of Denton. |
| The Martyred Cardinal. | Phases In the Life of a Political Martyr. |
| Burning of Cottingham Castle. | Rise of the House of Phipps. |
| The Doomed Heir of Osmotherley. | The Plumpton Marriage. |
| The Eland Tragedy. | The Prodigal Son. |
| St. Eadwine, the Royal Martyr. | Saltmarshe, the Fanatic. |
| The Felons of Ilkley. | The Shepherd Lord. |
| The Gunpowder Plot. | The Viceroy Siward. |
| The Ingilby Boar’s Head. | The Synod of Streoneshalh. |
| The Lady Jockey. | The Traitor Governor of Hull. |
| Little Moll and her Husband. | The Topcliffe Insurrection. |
| The Londesborough Peerage. | Waterton, the Wanderer. |
| The Maiden of Marblehead. | The Earldom of Wiltes. |
| The Metcalfes and the Three Calves passant. | The Witches of Fewston. |
The Volume will be tastefully bound in Cloth Gilt, and printed from new type on toned paper, and no pains will be spared to render it a lasting and important contribution to Yorkshire literature.