A YORKSHIRE BUTCHER 223 THE ONE-POUND NOTE 236 MR. WIKES OF LEASEHOLME 256 THE REV. MR. CARTER, PARSON-PUBLICAN 259 JOB SENIOR, THE HERMIT OF RUMBOLD'S MOOR 263 NANCY NICHOLSON, THE TERMAGANT 270 THE WOODEN BELL OF RIPON 318 OLD JOHN "MEALY-FACE" 322 THE BOGGART OF HELLEN-POT 326 JONATHAN MARTIN, THE INCENDIARY OF YORK MINSTER 340 BROTHER JUCUNDUS 393 MARY BATEMAN, WITCH AND MURDERESS 401 YORKSHIRE ODDITIES AND INCIDENTS. THE GHOST OF TRINITY CHURCH, YORK. Some years ago I heard mention made of an apparition said to have been seen in Trinity Church, Micklegate, York, which at the moment excited my curiosity. But as I heard no more about it, it passed out of my mind. In 1869 I was invited to deliver a lecture at Middlesborough, when I met a clergyman who introduced himself to me as an old acquaintance. We had not met for some years, and then he had been a boy at school. About a week after I left Middlesborough I received from him the following letter:-- I. "_Easter Sunday Evening, 1869._ "DEAR MR. BARING-GOULD. "I venture, from the slight acquaintance I am happy to have with you personally, and the deeper one I have with your tastes from external sources, to enclose for your perusal a narrative of a perfectly true event, drawn up by myself some few years ago, at the request of some friends who doubted the truth of the circumstances therein related. If you have ever heard anything of it, and can help me in explaining it, I shall be grateful, as it perplexes me, as one always is teased when something which one cannot account for has been brought to one's notice.