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PROPHET WROE 28 BISHOP-DYKE POND 59 SNOWDEN DUNHILL, THE CONVICT 65 JAMES NAYLOR, THE QUAKER 87 "OLD THREE LAPS" 102 CHRISTOPHER PIVETT 108 DAVID TURTON, MUSICIAN AT HORBURY 109 JOHN BARTENDALE, THE PIPER 117 BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH 120 "PEG PENNYWORTH" 169 PETER BARKER, THE BLIND JOINER 173 THE WHITE HOUSE 179 JEMMY HIRST, AN ODDITY 186 THE TRAGEDY OF BENINGBROUGH HALL 216 A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER 223 THE ONE-POUND NOTE 236 MR. WIKES OF LEASEHOLME 256 THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON-PUBLICAN 259 JOB SENIOR, THE HERMIT OF RUMBOLD'S MOOR 263 NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT 270 THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON 318 OLD JOHN "MEALY-FACE" 322 THE BOGGART OF HELLEN-POT 326 JONATHAN MARTIN, THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER 340 BROTHER JUCUNDUS 393 MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS 401

      Yorkshire

       Oddities and Incidents.

THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK.

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      Some years ago I heard mention made of an apparition said to have been seen in Trinity Church, Micklegate, York, which at the moment excited my curiosity. But as I heard no more about it, it passed out of my mind.

      In 1869 I was invited to deliver a lecture at Middlesborough, when I met a clergyman who introduced himself to me as an old acquaintance. We had not met for some years, and then he had been a boy at school. About a week after I left Middlesborough I received from him the following letter:—

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      "Easter Sunday Evening, 1869.

      "Dear Mr. Baring-Gould.

      "I venture, from the slight acquaintance I am happy to have with you personally, and the deeper one I have with your tastes from external sources, to enclose for your perusal a narrative of a perfectly true event, drawn up by myself some few years ago, at the request of some friends who doubted the truth of the circumstances therein related. If you have ever heard anything of it, and can help me in explaining it, I shall be grateful, as it perplexes me, as one always is teased when something which one cannot account for has been brought to one's notice.

      "Mr. S—— is going in a few Sundays to preach at the very church in York where this took place, and this bringing again before my mind the spectacle I then saw, caused me to apply to my friends for the account I gave them, and I now send it to you. I could, if you are interested, supply some minor details, but better by word of mouth, if ever we meet again. The only correction I should make is this: You will find that I relate a sequence of events, and I am not quite satisfied in my own mind that I have given the order of the incidents exactly as they occurred, and it is possible that I may have inverted them. At the time I was so startled that I was more intent on observing the figures than noting what was the succession in the scenes, if I may use the expression. Indeed, each reappearance was a surprise; and when I tried to recall each incident in the order in which it occurred, I found that though I could recall the appearance distinctly before my mind's eye,

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