Chapter II: Preface: To Revised Edition

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_.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK 1

PETER PRIESTLY, THE WAKEFIELD PARISH CLERK 22

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.

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:--