LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| REV. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM (Thomas Ingoldsby), | [Frontispiece] |
| THE SPECTRE OF TAPPINGTON, | [4] |
| THE GHOST, | [66] |
| HAMILTON TIGHE, | [102] |
| GRANDFATHER'S STORY; OR, THE WITCHES' FROLIC, | [113] |
| THE JACKDAW OF RHEIMS, | [143] |
| A LAY OF ST. NICHOLAS, | [175] |
| THE BLACK MOUSQUETAIRE, | [241] |
| THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, | [260] |
| THE AUTO-DA-FÉ, | [277] |
| THE DEAD DRUMMER, | [343] |
| THE LAY OF ST. CUTHBERT, | [362] |
| A LEGEND OF DOVER, | [381] |
| LEGEND OF ST. MEDARD, | [399] |
| THE LORD OF THOULOUSE, | [413] |
| THE BUCCANEER'S CURSE, | [428] |
| THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY, | [467] |
| THE HOUSE-WARMING, | [479] |
| JERRY JARVIS'S WIG, | [497] |
[MEMOIR.]
Richard Harris Barham, the "Thomas Ingoldsby" of literature, was born at Canterbury, December 6th, 1788. His family had long been residents in the archiepiscopal city, and had estates in Kent. He (Barham) used to trace his descent from a knight who came over to England with William the Conqueror, and whose son, Reginald Fitzurse, was one of the assassins of Thomas à Becket. After the deed Fitzurse fled to Ireland, and there changed his name to MacMahon, which has the same meaning. His brother Robert, who succeeded to the English estates, changed his patronymic to de Berham, converted in process of time into Barham.