Folk lore of East Yorkshire Author:John Nicholson This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... re-established, and a convent built on the same spot. Another story relates that during the plague, some two hundred years ago, ... more »a nurse and child died of the pestilence, and were necessarily buried outside the city walls, while the unfortunate mother of the child, at her death, was interred in Holy Trinity churchyard. Here the mother waits and receives the nurse and child, weeping and wringing her hands before parting with them. The same scene is often re-acted several times during the same day, and even during the same service. Whatever may have been the circumstances under which the ghost (if it is one, which is hard to believe in these matter-of-fact days) commenced its peculiar promenade, I would recommend those who have the chance to go to Holy Trinity Church, York, and see for themselves, though a sight of the apparition cannot always be assured. A ghost in broad daylight does no harm, frightens no one, and ought to interest everybody.'7 The following is an extract from the Hull Advertiser of 13th August, 1818, relative to an apparition seen in Skipsea Lane. A correspondent to that paper, on the date mentioned, says:--"About six months ago, a small party, including myself, having met at the house of a lady in Holderness, our conversation, in its range, happened to rest on the subject of supernatural appearances. The good lady of the house expressed her disbelief in the reality of such appearances, which led a gentleman of known veracity to relate what he himself had seen. About ten years ago, he said, as I was travelling on horseback, one afternoon in the month of March, on the road from Hornsea to Bridlington, just as I was ascending the brow of a hill on the south of Skipsea, I observed a woman, apparently young, dressed in white,...« less