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LEGENDARY YORKSHIRE

by

FREDERICK ROSS, F.R.H.S.,

Author of
"Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds," "Yorkshire Family Romance,"
etc.







Hull:
William Andrews & Co., The Hull Press.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Limited.
1892.




_NOTE._

Of this book 500 copies have been printed, and this is

No....




Contents.

                                          PAGE

  THE ENCHANTED CAVE                         1

  THE DOOMED CITY                           15

  THE "WORM" OF NUNNINGTON                  34

  THE DEVIL'S ARROWS                        51

  THE GIANT ROAD-MAKER OF MULGRAVE          70

  THE VIRGIN'S HEAD OF HALIFAX              80

  THE DEAD ARM OF ST. OSWALD THE KING      100

  THE TRANSLATION OF ST. HILDA             117

  A MIRACLE OF ST. JOHN                    131

  THE BEATIFIED SISTERS OF BEVERLEY        147

  THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY                    168

  THE MIRACLES AND GHOST OF WATTON         176

  THE MURDERED HERMIT OF ESKDALE           195

  THE CALVERLEY GHOST                      214

  THE BEWITCHED HOUSE OF WAKEFIELD         231




LEGENDARY YORKSHIRE.




The Enchanted Cave.


Who is there that has not heard of the famous and redoubtable hero of
history and romance, Arthur, King of the British, who so valiantly
defended his country against the pagan Anglo-Saxon invaders of the
island? Who has not heard of the lovely but frail Guenevera, his Queen,
and the galaxy of female beauty that constituted her Court at Caerleon?
Who has not heard of his companions-in-arms--the brave and chivalrous
Knights of the Round Table, who went forth as knights-errant to succour
the weaker sex, deliver the oppressed, liberate those who had fallen
into the clutches of enchanters, giants, or malicious dwarfs, and
especially in quest of the Holy Graal, that mystic chalice, in which
were caught the last drops of blood of the expiring Saviour, and
which, in consequence, became possessed of wondrous properties and
marvellous virtue of a miraculous character?

If such there be, let him lose no time in perusing Sir John Mallory's
"La Morte d'Arthur," the "Chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth," the
"Mabinogian of the Welsh," or the more recent "Idylls of the King,"
of Tennyson. According to Nennius, after vanquishing the Saxons in
many battles, he crossed the sea, and carried his victorious arms into
Scotland, Ireland, and Gaul, in which latter country he obtained a
decisive victory over a Roman army. Moreover, that during his absence
Mordred, his nephew, had seduced his queen and usurped his