Mother Leakey and the Bishop A Ghost Story

Name: Mother Leakey and the Bishop A Ghost Story
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ISBN: 9780199532070

ISBN-10: 0199532079

ISBN-13: 9780199532070

Edition: 2008

Authors: Peter Marshall, Peter Marshall

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Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in the Irish capital, Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable' crime. In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to uncover the intriguing links between these two seemingly unconnected events. The result is a compelling tale of dark family secrets, of efforts to suppress them, and of the ways in which they finally come to light. It is also the story of a shocking seventeenth-century Church scandal which cast its shadow over…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Note to Readers


Abbreviations


List of Illustrations


Cast of Characters


Prologue: A Haunting in Minehead



The World of the Leakeys



The Leakeys' Other WorldInterlude: A Hanging in Dublin



The Devil Let Loose off his Chain



The Shameful End of Bishop Atherton



The Penitent Death of a Woeful SinnerInterlude: In a London Coffee House



Athenianism



The Narratives of the Reverend John Quick



Atherton and Leakey: History and Folklore


Epilogue: Mother Leakey's Parlour


Notes


Bibliography of Sources Cited


Index