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

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066064648

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       THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK

       PETER PRIESTLY, THE WAKEFIELD PARISH CLERK

       PROPHET WROE

       BISHOP-DYKE POND

       SNOWDEN DUNHILL, THE CONVICT

       JAMES NAYLOR, THE QUAKER

       "OLD THREE LAPS"

       CHRISTOPHER PIVETT

       DAVID TURTON, MUSICIAN AT HORBURY

       JOHN BARTENDALE, THE PIPER

       BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH

       "PEG PENNYWORTH"

       PETER BARKER, THE BLIND JOINER

       THE WHITE HOUSE

       JEMMY HIRST, AN ODDITY

       THE TRAGEDY OF BENINGBROUGH HALL

       A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER

       MR. WIKES OF LEASEHOLME

       THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON-PUBLICAN

       JOB SENIOR, THE HERMIT OF RUMBOLD'S MOOR

       NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT

       THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON

       OLD JOHN "MEALY-FACE"

       THE BOGGART OF HELLEN-POT

       JONATHAN MARTIN, THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER

       BROTHER JUCUNDUS

       MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS

      PREFACE.

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      A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

      A friend, when he heard that I was collecting such material, exclaimed, "What are you about? Every other Yorkshireman is a character!" Such is the case. No other county produces so much originality—and that originality, when carried to excess, is eccentricity.

      I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in ​Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life. I venture to offer this collection of memoirs of odd people, and narrative of strange events, as a humble contribution to the annals of the greatest, not perhaps only in extent, of our English counties, and a slight return for the pleasant welcome it afforded a migratory penman from the South.

      PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

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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.

      Lew Trenchard, 12th April, 1890.

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