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Author Marshall, Peter, 1964 October 26-

Title Mother Leakey and the bishop : a ghost story / Peter Marshall
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 323 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents NOTE TO READERS; ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CAST OF CHARACTERS; Prologue: A Haunting in Minehead; 1. The World of the Leakeys; 2. The Leakeys' Other World; 3. The Devil Let Loose off his Chain; 4. The Shameful End of Bishop Atherton; 5. The Penitent Death of a Woeful Sinner; 6. Athenianism; 7. The Narratives of the Reverend John Quick; 8. Atherton and Leakey: History and Folklore; Epilogue: Mother Leakey's Parlour; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES CITED; INDEX
Summary In 1636 sightings of the ghost of an old woman are reported in Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. In 1940 a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable crime'. Marshall sets out to uncover the link between these seemingly unconnected events
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index
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Subject Atherton, John, 1598-1640.
SUBJECT Atherton, John, 1598-1640 fast
Subject Legends -- England -- Minehead -- History -- Sources
Ghost stories, English -- England -- Minehead -- History -- Sources
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Ghost stories, English
Legends
Legenden.
England -- Minehead
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006037209
ISBN 0191534331
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