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CCENTRIC CHARACTERS

Pub July 31.05 by RS.Kirby Lenden House Yards Pauls

WONDERFUL

AND

ECCENTRIC MUSEUM;

OR,

MAGAZINE

OF

REMARKABLE CHARACTERS.

INCLUDING ALL THE

CURIOSITIES OF NATURE AND ART,

FROM THE REMOTEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME, Drawn from every authentic Source.

ILLUSTRATED WITH

ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS,

FROM THE MOST SINGULAR AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS EXTANT.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY BARNARD AND SULTZER,
Water Lane, Fleet Street;

FOR R. S. KIRBY, LONDON HOUSE YARD,

ST. PAUL'S.

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WONDERFUL

AND

ECCENTRIC MUSEUM;

OR,

MAGAZINE

OF

REMARKABLE CHARACTERS.

INCLUDING ALL THE

CURIOSITIES OF NATURE AND ART,

FROM THE REMOTEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME,

Drawn from every authentic Source.

ILLUSTRATED WITH

ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS,

FROM THE MOST SINGULAR AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS EXTANT.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY BARNARD AND SULTZER,
Water Lane, Fleet Street;

FOR R. S. KIRBY, LONDON HOUSE YARD

ST. PAUL'S.

Stricket, then servant to John Wren, of Wilton Hall* the next house to Blakehills*, was sitting at the door with his master, they saw the figure of a man with a dog, pursuing some horses along Souter Fell side, a place so steep that a horse can scarcely travel on it at all. They appeared to run at an amazing pace, till they got out of sight at the lower end of the Fell. The next morning Stricket and his master ascended the steep side of the mountain, in full expectation that they should find the man lying dead; as they were persuaded that the swiftness with which he ran must have killed him: and imagined likewise, that they should pick up some of the shoes, which they thought the horses must have lost in galloping at such a furious rate. They, however, were disappointed; for there appeared not the least vestige of either man or horses, not so much as the mark of a horse's hoof upon the turf. Astonishment, and a degree of fear, perhaps, for some time induced them to conceal the circumstances; but they at length disclosed them; and, as might be expected, were only laughed at for their credulity.

The following year 1744, on the 23d of June, as the same Daniel Stricket, who at that time lived with Mr. William Lancaster's father, of Blakehills, was walking a little above the house, about half past seven in the evening, he saw a troop of horsemen riding on Souter Fell side, in pretty close ranks, and at a brisk pace. Mindful of the ridicule which had been excited against him. the preceding year, he continued to observe them in silence for some time; but being at last convinced that the appearance was real, he went into the house, and informed Mr. Lancaster, that he had something curious to show him. They went out together, but before Stricket had either spoken or pointed to the place, bis

These places, are about half a mile from Souter Fell.

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