Yorkshire Oddities, by S. Baring-Gould, M.A

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Author

Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924

Title

Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events

Credits

Produced by Shaun Pinder, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Yorkshire (England) -- Miscellanea

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47386

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47386

Release Date

November 17, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Yorkshire Oddities
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI
6. 6.PETER PRIESTLY, THE WAKEFIELD PARISH CLERK.
7. 7.PROPHET WROE. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.BISHOP-DYKE POND. [6] — FOOTNOTE:
9. 9.SNOWDEN DUNHILL, THE CONVICT. — FOOTNOTE:
10. 10.JAMES NAYLOR, THE QUAKER. [8] — FOOTNOTE:
11. 11."OLD THREE LAPS."
12. 12.CHRISTOPHER PIVETT.
13. 13.DAVID TURTON, MUSICIAN AT HORBURY.
14. 14.JOHN BARTENDALE, THE PIPER.
15. 15.BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH. [9] — FOOTNOTE:
16. 16."PEG PENNYWORTH."
17. 17.PETER BARKER, THE BLIND JOINER OF HAMPSWAITE. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.THE WHITE HOUSE. — FOOTNOTE:
19. 19.JEMMY HIRST; AN ODDITY. [13] — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.THE TRAGEDY OF BENINGBROUGH HALL.
21. 21.A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER. — FOOTNOTE:
22. 22.THE ONE-POUND NOTE. [16] — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.MR. WIKES, OF LEASEHOLME. [18] — FOOTNOTE:
24. 24.THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON-PUBLICAN.
25. 25.JOB SENIOR, THE HERMIT OF RUMBOLD'S MOOR. [19] — FOOTNOTE:
26. 26.NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON.
28. 28.OLD JOHN MEALY-FACE. — FOOTNOTE:
29. 29.THE BOGGART OF HELLEN-POT. A TALE OF THE YORKSHIRE MOORS. [23] — FOOTNOTE:
30. 30.JONATHAN MARTIN, THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER. [24] — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.BROTHER JUCUNDUS.
32. 32.MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS.

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