Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange EventsBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Legends -- England -- Yorkshire; Yorkshire (England) -- Miscellanea
During his stay in York he employed himself in vending his books, and
was well known in the city from wearing a glazed, broad-brimmed,
low-crowned hat, and a singular black leather cape, which came down to
his elbows, with a square patch of fur sewn on the back, and extending
from one corner to the other. At York he attended the Methodist meeting,
but sometimes was with the Primitives, or Ranters. When he had any
vacant time, he spent it in reading either the Bible or his hymn-book.
On Sunday afternoon he was wont to go to the Minster, and on the 6th of
January the following letter was found tied to one of the iron gates of
the Minster choir; it was fastened by a shoemaker's waxed thread, but
was not directed. A verger, however, took it down and gave it to one of
the canons or minor canons, who, however, thought it too absurd to
deserve notice. The following is a verbatim copy of it:--
"York, Janrey the 5-- 1829.
"Hear the word of Lord, Oh you Dark and Lost Clergymen.
"Repent and cry for marcey for know is the day of vangens and your
Cumplet Destruction is at Hand for the Lord will not sufer you and
the Deveal and your blind Hellish Docktren to dseve the works of
His Hands no longer.
"Oh, you Desevears will not milleons of the mighty and Rich men of
the Earth have to Curs the Day that ever they gat under your blind
Docktren know to be a shamd of your selvs and wepe for your Bottls
of Wine and your downey Beds will be taken away from you I warn you
to repent in the name of Jesuse and believe he is able on Earth to
forgeve Sines, for there is no repenting in the greave Oh you blind
Gydes are you not like the man that bilt his Hous upon the Sands
when the Thunder starmes of Gods Heavey vangens lites upon your
Gildrys Heads a way gos your sandey Foundaytons and you to the
deepest pet of Hell re Serve the Curses of millions that your blind
Doctrens has Decevd and to reseve Gods Heve Curs and the Ward
pronounst Depart you Carsit blind Gides in to the Hotist plase of
Hell to be tormented with the Deveal and all his Eanguls for Ever
and Ever
"Jona. Martin, a frind of the Sun of Boneypart Must Conclude By
warning you again Oh Repent repent He will soon be able to act
"the part of his Father
"Derect for Jonathan Martin
"Aldwark No. 60"
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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