PREFACE.
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
CONTENTS. PAGE. THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK 1 PETER
THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK.
PETER PRIESTLY, THE WAKEFIELD PARISH CLERK.
PROPHET WROE.
BISHOP-DYKE POND. [6]
SNOWDEN DUNHILL, THE CONVICT.
JAMES NAYLOR, THE QUAKER. [8]
"OLD THREE LAPS."
CHRISTOPHER PIVETT.
DAVID TURTON, MUSICIAN AT HORBURY.
JOHN BARTENDALE, THE PIPER.
BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH. [9]
"PEG PENNYWORTH."
PETER BARKER, THE BLIND JOINER OF HAMPSWAITE.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
JEMMY HIRST; AN ODDITY. [13]
THE TRAGEDY OF BENINGBROUGH HALL.
A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER.
THE ONE-POUND NOTE. [16]
MR. WIKES, OF LEASEHOLME. [18]
THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON-PUBLICAN.
JOB SENIOR, THE HERMIT OF RUMBOLD'S MOOR. [19]
NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT.
THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON.
OLD JOHN MEALY-FACE.
THE BOGGART OF HELLEN-POT. A TALE OF THE YORKSHIRE MOORS. [23]
JONATHAN MARTIN, THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER. [24]
BROTHER JUCUNDUS.
MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS.
Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
YORKSHIRE ODDITIES.
Yorkshire Oddities
INCIDENTS
AND
STRANGE EVENTS
BY
S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.
AUTHOR OF "MEHALAH," "ICELAND: ITS SCENES AND SAGAS,"
"OLD COUNTRY LIFE," ETC.
"There be such a company of wilful gentlemen within Yorkshire as there be not in
all England besides."—Abbot of York to Cromwell, 1556, Rolls House MS.
FIFTH EDITION
London
METHUEN AND CO.
18 BURY STREET, W.C.
1900
