Published by Good Press, 2019

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       PREFACE.

       PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

       THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK.

       I.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       V.

       VI

       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.

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.