Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events

The book is titled Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events. The preface says a residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished the writer with a large amount of material. A writer to the York Herald explains that anyone seated in the gallery of the church at the west end can see through the east window any person walking in the vicarage garden.

The text tells of Mr. Earle, who expected a warrant for his arrest on the charge of high treason and the confiscation of all his property, and was therefore desirous to remove all he could in time to escape to France. Marian tells the master, with some hesitation, that an attachment subsisted between her and the gamekeeper, a man named Martin Giles. The text describes a cry of “Beer, beer, beer! we all want our beer!” resounding from every part of the refectory. A shocking sight presented itself in the vault, where Brother Jucundus lay with his head against the butt of Malmsey.