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.
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1900