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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