 | John Harland, Thomas Turner Wilkinson - 1873 - 344 pages
...in a riot, a watchman made a stroke at him with his bill, which severed his head from his body. The head was enclosed in a box and sent to his sister, who lived at Wardley Hall. "The skull," adds the narrator, "has been kept at Wardley ever since, and many... | |
 | John Harland - 1873 - 332 pages
...in a riot, a watchman made a stroke at him with his bill, which severed his head from his body. The head was enclosed in a box and sent to his sister, who lived at Wardley Hall. "The skull," adds the narrator, "has been kept at Wardley ever since, and many... | |
 | William Andrews - 1883 - 234 pages
...witness to the wreck the storm had made. Yet all this might have happened had the skull never been removed ; but withal it keeps alive the credibility...in a box, and sent to his sister, who then lived at Wa1dley, where it hath continued ever since." A human skull is, or was, kept at an old farmstead called... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1884 - 140 pages
...and found it as above mentioned, and " bleached white with weather, that beats in upon it from a 35 " four-square window in the hall, which the tenants...inscription : — " Rogerus Downes de Wardley, armiger, films Johannis Downes, hujus comitatis, armigeri, obiit 27 Junii 1676, astatis suae 28." The Rev. Mr.... | |
 | John Henry Ingram - 1884 - 340 pages
...would kill the first man he met ; and accordingly he ran his sword through a man immediately, a tailor by trade. However, justice overtook him in his career...lived at Wardley, where it hath continued ever since." Koby, in his Traditions of Lancashire, refers to this Wardley legend. After relating the fate of young... | |
 | John H. Ingram - 1886 - 668 pages
...would kill the first man he met; and accordingly he ran his sword through a man immediately, a tailor by trade. However, justice overtook him in his career...lived at Wardley, where it hath continued ever since." Roby, in his Traditions of Lancashire, refers to this Wardley legend. After relating the fate of young... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1887 - 588 pages
...London Bridge, a watchman made a stroke at him with his bill, and severed his head from his body. The head was enclosed in a box, and sent to his sister, who lived at Wardley, where it hath continued ever since." In the West of England the fortunes of children... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pages
...witness to the wreck the storm had made. Yet all this might have happened had the skull never been removed ; but withal it keeps alive the credibility...lived at Wardley, where it hath continued ever since." A human skull is,' or was, kept at an old farmstead called Bettiscombe House, in the parish of Bettiscombe,... | |
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But what I can learn of the above affair from " old people in the neighbourhood is, that a young man of the " Downes family, being in London, one night in his frolics " vowed to his companions that he would kill the first man "he met; and accordingly... 