FATAL PASSION.
What dreadful havoc in the human breast
The passions make, when, unconfined and mad,
They burst, unguided by the mental eye,
The light of reason, which, in various ways,
Points them to good, or turns them back from ill!
THOMSON.
The annals of some of our old and respected families have occasionally
been sadly stained "by hideous exhibitions of cruelty and lust," in
certain instances the result of an unscrupulous disregard of moral
duty and of a vindictive fierceness in avenging injury. It has been
oftentimes remarked that few tragedies which the brain of the novelist
has depicted have surpassed in their unnatural and horrible details
those enacted in real life, for
When headstrong passion gets the reins of reason,
The force of Nature, like too strong a gale,
For want of ballast, oversets the vessel.
Love, indeed, which has been proverbially said to lead to as much evil
as any impulse that agitates the human bosom, must be held responsible
for only too many of those crimes which from time to time outrage
society, for, as the authors of "Guesses at Truth" have remarked,
"jealousy is said to be the offspring of love, yet, unless the parent
make haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has
poisoned the parent." Thus, a tragedy which made the Castle of
Corstorphine the scene of a terrible crime and scandal in the year
1679, may be said to have originated in an unhallowed passion.
George, first Lord Forrester, having no male issue, made an
arrangement whereby his son-in-law, James Baillie, was to succeed him
as second Lord Forrester and proprietor of the estate of Corstorphine.
Just four years after this compact was made, Lord Forrester died, and
James Baillie, a young man of twenty-five, succeeded to the title and
property. But this arrangement did not meet with the approval of Lord
Forrester's daughters, who regarded it as a manifest injustice that
the honours of their ancient family should devolve on an alien--a
feeling of dissatisfaction which was more particularly nourished by
the third daughter, Lady Hamilton, whose husband was far from wealthy.
It so happened that Lady Hamilton had a daughter, Christian, who was
noted for her rare beauty and high spirit. But, unfortunately, she was
a girl of strong passion, which, added to her self-will, caused her,
when she had barely arrived at a marriageable age, to engage herself
to one James Nimmo, the son of an Edinburgh merchant. Before many
weeks had elapsed, the young couple were married, and the handsome
young wife was settled in her new home in Edinburgh. Time wore on, the
novelty of marriage died away, and as Mrs. Nimmo dwelt on her
mercantile surroundings, she recognised more and more what an
ill-assorted match she had made, and in her excitable mind, "she
cursed the bond which connected her with a man whose social position
she despised, and whose occupations she scorned." The report, however,
of her uncommon beauty, could not fail to reach the ears of young Lord
Forrester, who on the score of relationship was often attracted to
Mrs. Nimmo's house. At first he was received with coldness, but, by
flattering and appealing to her vanity, he gradually "accomplished the
ruin of this unhappy young woman," and made her the victim of his
licentious and unprincipled designs.
But no long time had elapsed when this shameful intrigue became the
subject of common talk, and public indignation took the side of the
injured woman, when Lord Forrester, after getting tired of her, "was
so cruel and base as to speak of her openly in the most opprobrious
manner," even alluding to her criminal connection with him. In so
doing, however, he had not taken into consideration the violent
character of the woman he had wronged, nor thought he of her jealousy,
wounded pride, and despair. In his haste, also, to rid himself of the
woman who no longer fascinated him, he paid no heed to the passion
that was lurking in her inflamed bosom, nor counted on her _spretæ
injuria formæ_.
On the other hand, whilst he was forgetting the past in his orgies,
Mrs. Nimmo--whose love for him was turned to the bitterest hate--was
hourly reproaching him, and at last the fatal moment arrived when she
felt bound to proceed to Corstorphine Castle, and confront her
evil-doer. At the time, Lord Forrester was drinking at the village
tavern, and, when the infuriated woman demanded to see him, he was
flushed with claret, and himself in no amiable mood. The altercation,
naturally, "soon became violent, bitter reproaches were uttered on the
one side, and contemptuous sneers on the other." Goaded to frenzy, the
unhappy woman stabbed her paramour to the heart, killing him
instantly.
When taken before the sheriff of Edinburgh, she confessed her crime,
and, although she told the court in the most pathetic manner how
basely she had been wronged by one who should have supported rather
than ruined her, sentence of death was passed upon her. She managed,
writes Sir Bernard Burke,[56] to postpone the execution of her
sentence by declaring that she was with child by her seducer, and
during her imprisonment succeeded in escaping in the disguise of a
young man. But she was captured, and on the 12th November, 1679, paid
the penalty of her rash act, appearing at her execution attired in
deep mourning, covered with a large veil.
Radcliffe to this day possesses the tradition of a terrible tragedy of
which there are several versions. It appears that one Sir William de
Radclyffe had a very beautiful daughter whose mother died in giving
her birth. After a time he married again, and the step-mother,
actuated by feeling of jealousy, conceived a violent hatred to the
girl, which ere long prompted her to be guilty of the most insane
cruelty. One day, runs the story, when Sir William was out hunting,
she sent the unsuspecting girl into the kitchen with a message to the
cook that he was to dress the white doe. But the cook professing
ignorance of the particular white doe he was to dress, asserted, to
the young lady's intense horror, that he had received orders to kill
her, which there and then he did, afterwards making her into a pie.
On Sir William's return from hunting, he made inquiries for his
daughter, but his wife informed him that she had taken the opportunity
in his absence of going into a nunnery. Suspicious, however, of the
truth of her story--for her jealous hatred of his daughter had not
escaped his notice--he flew into a passion, and demanded in the most
peremptory manner where his daughter was, whereupon the scullion boy
denounced the step-mother, and warned Sir William against eating the
pie.
The whole truth was soon revealed, and the diabolic wickedness of Lady
William did not pass unpunished, for she was burnt, and the cook was
condemned to stand in boiling lead. A ballad in the Pepys' collection,
entitled, "The Lady Isabella's Tragedy, or the Step-mother's Cruelty,"
records this horrible barbarity; and in a Lancashire ballad, called
"Fair Ellen of Radcliffe", it is thus graphically told:--
She straighte into the kitchen went,
Her message for to tell;
And then she spied the master cook,
Who did with malice swell.
"Nowe, master cooke, it must be soe,
Do that which I thee tell;
You needs must dress the milk-white doe,
You which do knowe full well."
Then straight his cruel, bloody hands,
He on the ladye laid,
Who, quivering and ghastly, stands
While thus to her he sayd:
"Thou art the doe that I must dress;
See here! behold, my knife!
For it is pointed, presentli
To rid thee of thy life."
O then, cryed out the scullion boye,
As loud as loud might be,
"O save her life, good master cook,
And make your pyes of me."
The tradition adds that Sir William was not unmindful of the scullion
boy's heroic conduct, for he made him heir to his possessions.
Another cruel case of woman's jealousy, which, happily, was not so
disastrous in its result as the former, relates to Maria, daughter of
the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, second son of Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth,
who was Maid of Honour to Queen Caroline. Report goes that between
this young lady, who was one of the greatest beauties about the Court,
and a Mr. Price, an admired man about town, there subsisted a strong
attachment. Unfortunately for Miss Mackenzie, Mr. Price was an
especial favourite of the celebrated Countess of Deloraine, who, to
get rid of her rival in beauty, poisoned her.
But this crime was discovered in time, antidotes were administered
with success, and the girl's life was saved; although her lovely
complexion is said to have been ruined, ever after continuing of a
lemon tint. Queen Caroline, desirous of shielding the Countess of
Deloraine from the consequences of her act, persuaded "the poisoned
beauty" to appear, as soon as she was sufficiently recovered, at a
supper, given either by the Countess of Deloraine or where she was to
be present. Accordingly, on the night arranged, some excitement was
caused by the arrival of Miss Mackenzie, for as she entered the room,
someone exclaimed, "How entirely changed!"
But Mr. Price, who was seated by Lady Deloraine remarked, "In my eyes
she is more beautiful than ever," and it only remains to add that they
were married next morning.
Like jealousy, thwarted love has often been cause of the most
unnatural crimes, and a tragic story is told of the untimely death of
Mr Blandy, of Henley, in Oxfordshire, who, by practice as an attorney,
had accumulated a large fortune. He had an only child, Mary, who was
regarded as an heiress, and consequently had suitors many. On one
occasion, it happened that William Cranstoun, brother of Lord
Cranstoun, being upon a recruiting party in Oxfordshire, and hearing
of Miss Blandy's "great expectations," found an opportunity of
introducing himself to the family.
The Captain's attentions, however, to Miss Blandy met with the strong
disapproval of her father, for he had ascertained that this suitor for
his daughter's hand had been privately married in Scotland. But
against this objection Captain Cranstoun replied that he hoped to get
this marriage speedily set aside by a decree of the Supreme Court of
Session. And when the Court refused to annul the marriage, Mr. Blandy
absolutely refused to allow his daughter to have any further
communications with so dishonourable a man; a resolution to which he
remained inexorable.
Intrigue between the two was the result, for it seems that Miss
Blandy's affection for this profligate man--almost double her age--was
violent. As might be expected, Captain Cranstoun not only worked upon
her feelings, but imposed on her credulity. He sent her from Scotland
a pretended love powder, which he enjoined her to administer to her
father, in order to gain his affection and procure his consent. This
injunction she did not carry out, on account of a frightful dream, in
which she saw her father fall from a precipice into the ocean.
Thereupon the Captain wrote a second time, and told her in words
somewhat enigmatical, but easily understood by her, his design.
Horrible to relate, the wicked girl was so elated with the idea of
removing her father, that she was heard to exclaim before the
servants, "who would not send an old fellow to hell for thirty
thousand pounds?"
The fatal die was cast. The deadly powder was mixed and given to him
in a cup of tea, after drinking which he soon began to swell
enormously.
"What have you given me, Mary?" asked the unhappy dying man. "You have
murdered me; of this I was warned, but, alas! I thought it was a false
alarm. O, fly; take care of the Captain!"
Thus Mr. Blandy died of poison, but his daughter was captured whilst
attempting to escape, and was conveyed to Oxford Castle, where she was
imprisoned till the assizes, when she was tried for parricide, was
found guilty, and executed. Captain Cranstoun managed to effect his
escape, and went abroad, where he died soon afterwards in a deplorable
state of mind, brought about by remorse for the evil and misery he had
caused.
Almost equally tragic was the fatal passion of Sir William Kyte,
forming another strange domestic drama in real life. Possessed of
considerable fortune, and of ancient family, Sir William was deemed a
very desirable match, and when he offered his hand to a young lady of
noble rank, and of great beauty, he was at once accepted. The marriage
for the first few years turned out happily, but the crisis came when
Sir William was nominated, at a contested election, to represent the
borough of Warwick, in which county lay the bulk of his estate. After
the election was over, Lady Kyte, by way of recompensing a zealous
partisan of her husband, took an innkeeper's daughter, Molly Jones,
for her maid; "a tall, genteel girl, with a fine complexion, and
seemingly very modest and innocent." But before many months had
elapsed, Sir William was attracted by the girl, and, eventually,
became so infatuated by her charms, that, casting aside all restraints
of shame or fear, he agreed to a separation between his wife and
himself. Accordingly, Sir William left Lady Kyte, with the two younger
children, in possession of the mansion-house in Warwickshire, and
retired with his mistress and his two eldest sons to a farmhouse on
the Cotswold hills. Charmed with the situation, he was soon tempted to
build a handsome house here, to which were added two large
side-fronts, for no better reason than that Molly Jones, one day,
happened to say, "What is a Kite without wings." But the expense of
completing this establishment, amounting to at least £10,000, soon
involved Sir William in financial difficulties, which caused him to
drown his worries in drink.
At this juncture, Molly Jones, forgetting her own past, was
injudicious enough to engage a fresh coloured country girl--who was
scarcely twenty--as dairymaid, for whom Sir William quickly conceived
an amorous regard. Actuated by jealousy or disgust, Molly Jones
threatened to leave Sir William, a resolution which she soon carried
out, retiring to Cambden, a neighbouring market town, where she was
reduced to keep a small sewing school as a means of livelihood.
Although left to carry on his intrigue undisturbed, Sir William soon
became a victim to gloomy reflections, feeling at times that he had
not only cruelly wronged a good wife, but had been deserted by the
very woman for whose sake he had brought this trouble and disgrace
upon his family. Tormented by these conflicting passions, he
occasionally worked himself up into such a state of frenzy that even
his new favourite was terrified, and had run away. It was when almost
maddened with the thought of his evil past that he formed that fatal
resolve which was a hideous ending to "the dreadful consequence of a
licentious passion not checked in its infancy." One October evening,
as a housemaid was on the stairs, suddenly "the lobby was all in a
cloud of smoke." She gave the alarm, and on the door being forced
open whence the smoke proceeded, it was discovered that Sir William
had set fire to a large heap of fine linen, piled up in the middle of
the room. From an adjoining room, where Sir William had made his
escape, the flames burst out with such fury that all were glad to make
their escape out of the house, the greater part of which was in a few
hours burnt to the ground--no other remains of its master being found
next morning but the hip-bone, and bones of the back.
A case which, at the time, created considerable sensation was the
murder of Thynne of Longleat by a jealous antagonist. The eleventh
Duke of Northumberland left an only daughter, whose career, it has
been said, "might match that of the most erratic or adventurous of her
race." Before she was sixteen years old, she had been twice a widow,
and three times a wife. At the age of thirteen, she was married to the
only son of the Duke of Newcastle, a lad of her own age, who died in a
few months. Her second husband was Thynne of Longleat, "Tom of Ten
Thousand," but the tie was abruptly severed by the bullet of an
assassin, set on by the notorious Count Konigsmark, who had been a
suitor for her hand, and was desirous of another chance. After his
death, the young widow, who was surrounded by a host of admirers,
married the Duke of Somerset, and she seems to have made him a fitting
mate, for when his second wife, a Finch, tapped him familiarly on the
shoulder, or, according to another version, seated herself on his
knee, he exclaimed indignantly:
"My first wife was a Percy, and she never thought of taking such a
liberty."
It may be added that one of the most remarkable incidents in this
celebrated beauty's life was when by dint of tears and supplications
she prevented Queen Anne from making Swift a bishop, out of revenge
for the "Windsor prophecy," in which she was ridiculed for the redness
of her hair, and upbraided as having been privy to the brutal murder
of her second husband. "It was doubted," says Scott, "which imputation
she accounted the more cruel insult, especially since the first charge
was undoubted, and the second arose only from the malice of the poet."
Another tragedy of a similar kind was the murder of William Mountford,
the player. Captain Richard Hill had conceived a violent passion for
Mrs. Bracegirdle, the beautiful actress, and is said to have offered
her his hand, and to have been refused. At last his passion became
ungovernable, and he determined to carry her off by force. To carry
out his purpose, he induced his friend Lord Mohun to assist him in the
attempt. According to one account, "he dodged the fair actress for a
whole day at the theatre, stationed a coach near the Horseshoe Tavern,
in Drury Lane, to carry her off in, and hired six soldiers to force
her into it. As the beautiful actress came down Drury Lane, at ten
o'clock at night, accompanied by her mother and brother, and escorted
by her friend Mr. Page, one of the soldiers seized her in his arms,
and endeavoured to force her into the coach. But the lady's scream
attracted a crowd, and Captain Hill, finding his endeavours
ineffectual, bid the soldiers let her go. Disappointed in their
object, Lord Mohun and Captain Hill vowed vengeance; and Mrs.
Bracegirdle on reaching home sent her servant to Mr. Mountford's house
to take care of himself, warning him against Lord Mohun and Captain
Hill, "who she feared, had no good intention toward him, and did wait
for him in the street." It appears that Mountford had already heard of
the attempt to carry off Mrs. Bracegirdle, and hearing that Lord Mohun
and Captain Hill were in the street, did not shrink from approaching
them."
The account says that he addressed Lord Mohun, and told him how sorry
he was to find him in the company of such a pitiful fellow as Captain
Hill, whereupon, it is said, "the captain came forth and said he would
justify himself, and went towards the middle of the street, and Mr.
Mountford followed him and drew." The end of the quarrel was that
Mountford fell with a terrible wound, of which he died on the
following day, declaring in his last moments that Captain Hill ran him
through the body before he could draw his sword. Captain Hill, it
seems, owed Mountford a deadly grudge, having attributed his rejection
by Mrs. Bracegirdle to her love for him--an unlikely passion, it is
thought, as Mountford was a married man, with a good-looking wife of
his own, afterwards Mrs. Verbruggen, and a celebrated actress.
Oulton House, Suffolk, long known as the "Haunted House," acquired its
ill-omened name from a tragic occurrence traditionally said to have
happened many years ago, and the peasantry in the neighbourhood affirm
that at midnight a wild huntsman, with his hounds, accompanied by a
lady carrying a poisoned cup, is occasionally seen. The story is that,
in the reign of George II., a squire, returning unexpectedly home from
the chase, discovered his wife with an officer, one of his guests, in
too familiar a friendship. High words followed, and the indignant
husband, provoked by the cool manner in which the officer treated the
matter, struck him, whereupon the guilty lover drew his sword and
drove it through the squire's heart, the faithless wife and her
paramour afterwards making their escape.
Some years afterwards, runs the tale, the Squire's daughter, who had
been left behind in the hasty departure, having grown to womanhood,
was affianced to a youthful farmer of the neighbourhood. But on their
bridal eve, as they were sitting together talking over the new life
they were about to enter, "a carriage, black and sombre as a hearse,
with closely drawn curtains, and attended by servants clad in sable
liveries, drew up to the door." The young girl was seized by masked
men, carried off in the carriage to her unnatural mother, while her
betrothed was stabbed as he vainly endeavoured to rescue her. A grave
is pointed out in the cemetery at Namur, as that in which was laid the
body of the unhappy girl, poisoned, it is alleged, by her unscrupulous
and wicked mother. It is not surprising, we are told, that the
locality was supposed to be haunted by the wretched woman--both as
wife and mother equally criminal.
Family romance, once more, has many a dark page recording how
despairing love has ended in self-destruction. At the beginning of the
present century, a sad catastrophe befell the Shuckburghs of
Shuckburgh Hall. It appears the Bedfordshire Militia were stationed
near Upper Shuckburgh, and the officers were in the habit of visiting
the Hall, whose hospitable owner, Sir Stewkley Shuckburgh, received
them with every mark of cordiality. His daughter, then about twenty
years of age, was a young lady of no ordinary attractions, and her
fascinations soon produced their natural effect on one of the
officers, Lieutenant Sharp, who became deeply attached to her. But as
soon as Sir Stewkley became aware of this love affair, he gave it his
decided disapproval. Lieutenant Sharp was forbidden the house, and
Miss Shuckburgh resolved to smother her love in deference to her
father's wishes. It was accordingly decided between the young people
that their intimacy should cease, and that the letters which had
passed between them should be returned. An arrangement was, therefore,
made that the lady should leave the packet for Lieutenant Sharp in the
summer-house in the garden on a specified evening, and that on the
following morning she should find the packet intended for her in the
same place. The sad engagement was kept, and having left her packet in
the evening, Miss Shuckburgh set out on the following morning to find
her own. A servant, it is said, who saw her in the garden, was curious
to know what could have brought her out at so early an hour. He
followed her unobserved, and on drawing near to the summer-house, "he
heard the voices of the lieutenant and of the lady in earnest dispute.
The officer was loud and impassioned, the lady firm but unconsenting.
Immediately was heard the report of a pistol, and the fall of a
body--another report and fall. Guessing the tragic truth, the servant
raised an alarm, and the two lovers were found lying dead in their own
blood." It is generally supposed that this terrible act of
self-destruction was the result of mutual agreement--the outcome of
passion and despair.
"Since that hour," writes Howitt, "every object, about the place which
could suggest to the memory this fatal event, has been changed or
removed. The summer-house has been razed to the ground; the
disposition of the garden itself altered; but," he adds, "such tragic
passages in human life become part and parcel of the scene where they
occur--they become the topic of the winter fireside. They last while
passions and affections, youth and beauty last. They fix themselves
into the soil, and the very rock on which it lies, and though the
house was razed from the spot, and its park and pleasaunces turned
into ploughed fields, it would still be said for ages: Here stood
Shuckburgh Hall, and here fell the young and lovely Miss Shuckburgh by
the hand of her despairing lover."
And to conclude with a romance in brief, some forty or fifty years
ago, in the far north of England a girl was on the eve of being
married. Her wedding dress was ordered, the guests were bidden. But,
it is said that at the eleventh hour, in a fit of passion and paltry
jealousy, she resented some fancied want of devotion in her lover.
He was single-minded, loyal, and altogether of finer stuff than
herself; but she was a wretched slave to such old stock phrases as
delicacy, family pride, and the like, and so he was allowed to go, for
she came of people who looked upon unforgiveness as a virtue.
Accordingly the discarded lover exchanged into a regiment under orders
for Afghanistan. At the time, our troops were engaged there in hot
fighting. The lad fell, and hidden on his breast was found a locket
which his sweetheart had once given him. It came back to her through a
brother officer, who had known something of his sad story, with a
stain on it--a stain of his blood. When that painful relic silently
told her of the devotion which she had so unjustly and basely wronged,
there came, in the familiar lines:
A mist and a weeping rain,
And life was never the same again.
That stain marked every day of a lonely life throughout forty years or
more.
FOOTNOTES:
[56] "Vicissitudes of Families," 1863, III. Ser., 202-203.
INDEX.
"Abbey Vows," The, 56-58.
Abingdon, John, Secret Room built by, at Hendlip Hall, 91-93.
Abrams, Disappearance of a Jew named, 251, 252.
Accidents, Lucky, 279-288.
Adolphus, Gustavus, Burial of, 262.
Ainsworth and Cuckfield Place, 180, 181.
Alexander III., Banquet of, 73-75.
Alfred, Prince, Death of, 79, 80.
Allan David, the Painter, 279, 280.
Anne of Austria, Heart of, 262.
Anne of Burton Agnes Hall, Skull of, 40-43.
Antoinette, M., and the Chevalier D'Eon, 220.
Armscott Manor, Secret Room at, 95, 96.
Arrowsmith, Father, Hand of, 158-160.
Arundell, Sir John, 12, 13.
Aubrey's "Miscellanies," 132, 133.
"Awd Nance" of Burton Agnes Hall, 40-43.
Baillie, James, 290-292.
Baker, Sir Richard, 110-112.
Baker, Sir Richard, and the Murder of Edward II., 89.
Baliol, John, The Heart of, 256.
Ballafletcher, Estate of, 201, 202.
Ballyshannon, Waterfall at, 272.
Bandini, The Sisters, 137-140.
Bank of England, Discovery in the Vaults of the, 264.
Banquets, Strange, 69-87.
Banshee, The, 193.
Barcroft Hall; the Idiot's Curse, 9, 10.
Baring-Gould, Rev. S., Story by, 156, 157.
Barn Hall, Tradition of, 165, 166.
Barritt, Thomas, and the Wardley Hall Skull, 39, 40.
Baydoyle Bank's Tragedy, The, 115.
"Bearded Watt," The, 68.
Beauchamp, Lord, Ghost of, 275, 276.
Belgrade, Bombardment of, Vow made by the Servians at, 68.
Benedick, Vow of, 51.
Berkeley Castle, Walpole and, 88, 89.
Bernard, Samuel, "Address to the Deil," 173.
Bernshaw Tower, Lady Sybil of, 168-170.
Berry Pomeroy Castle, Spectre at, 197.
Betsy, the Doctress (Russell), 222-224.
Bettiscombe, Screaming Skull at, 29-32.
Bisham Abbey, Spirit of Lady Russell at, 122, 123.
Bistmorton Court, Secret Room at, 97.
Blackwell, Murder at, 114, 115
Blandy, Miss, 296, 297.
Blandy, Mr., of Henley, Poisoning of, 296, 297
Blenkinsopp Castle, Romantic Story of, 60-62.
Blood Stains, Indelible, 114-134.
"Bloody Baker," 110-112.
"Bloody Chamber," The, 118, 119
"Bloody Footstep," Legend of the, 115-117.
Bodach Glass, The, 193-195.
Boleyn, Anne, Monument to, 254, 255.
Bolle, Sir John, Story of, 215, 216.
Boscobel House, Secret Chambers at, 97.
Bourne, Mr. John, 205, 206.
Bracegirdle, Mrs., the Actress, 301-303.
Bradshaigh, Sir William, 246-248.
Bramshill, A Chest at, 235.
Bransie Castle, Tradition associated with, 275, 276.
Brent Pelham Church, 166.
Brereton Family, The, 181.
Bromfield, Story of a Dragon at, 268, 269.
Bromley, Sir Henry, 92.
Broughton Castle, Room at, 90, 91.
Brown, Mrs., and the Death of Robert Perceval, 151, 152.
Browne, Sir Anthony, and Cowdray Castle, 19-21.
Bruce, Robert, The Heart of, 257-258.
Brunel, the Engineer, 282, 283.
Bryn Hall, "Dead Hand" at, 157-160.
Buckland Abbey, Sir F. Drake and, 170-173.
"Buckland Shag," Spectre of the, 124-126.
Bulgaden Hall, Tale of, 71-73.
Burdett, Mr. Sedley, 20.
Burke, Sir Bernard, and Bulgaden Hall, 73;
and Sir Robert Scott of Thirlestane, 78;
and Capt. Cayley, 148;
and Cecil, Earl of Exeter, 219;
and Draycot, 141;
and Gordon Castle, 182;
and Mrs. Nimmo, 292.
Burnaby, Col. Fred., Incident of the Carlist Rising, 212, 213
Burton Agnes Hall, "Awd Nance" of, 40-43.
Byron, Lord, and Skull at Newstead Abbey, 44, 45;
Club Foot of, 282;
and the Spectre of Newstead Abbey, 196;
The Heart of, at Newstead Abbey, 260.
Calverley Hall, Blood Stains at, 120, 121.
Calverley, Walter, 120, 121.
Cambuskenneth Abbey, Destruction of, 15.
Canning, Elizabeth, Disappearance of, 239-241.
Carbery, Baron, Tale of, 71-73.
Carew, B.M., A Companion of Russell, 223.
Carlist Rising in 1874, Incident of the, 212, 213.
Caroline, Queen, and the Countess of Deloraine, 295.
Carr, Earl of Somerset, 18, 19.
Castle Dalhousie, Death Omen, 181.
Castle Treasure, near Cork, 270.
Castlereagh, Lord, and the "Radiant Boy" Spectre, 196.
Cathcart, Lady, Strange Disappearance of, 236-238.
Cayley, Capt. John and Mrs. Macfarlane, 148, 149.
Cecil, Earl of Exeter, 217-220.
Chancery, Unclaimed Funds in, 266, 267.
Charles I., Bernini's Bust of, 133, 134.
Charles II., at the Trent Manor House, 96;
at Boscobel House, 97.
Chartley, Park at, 187-189.
Chattan, Clan of, 6-9.
Chettiscombe, Village of, 274, 275.
Chiappini, L., Daughter of, 136-140.
Chilton Cantels, Skull in a Farmhouse in, 34.
"Claimant," The, 23.
Clayton Old Hall, The "Bloody Chamber" at, 118.
Clifford, Lord, the "Shepherd Lad," 224-227.
Clifford, Wild Henry, 227.
Clifton, Family of, Death Omen of, 187.
Closeburn Castle, Lake at, 183-185.
"Coalstoun Pear," The, 199-201.
Coleridge, Sir John, Strange Romance recorded by, 241-243.
Compacts with the Devil, 162-179.
Condover Hall, Blood Stain at, 118.
Congreve and Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, 86.
Cook, Kraster, Myles Phillipson and, 35-37.
Cooper, Sir Astley, 285.
Cope, Sir John, 235.
Corbet, Legend of the House of, 75, 76.
Corby Castle, "Radiant Boy" Spectre of, 196.
Cornish Belief _re_ St. Denis' Blood, 127.
Corstophine, Castle of, Tragedy at, 290-293.
Cortachy Castle, 189, 190.
Cothele, Blood Stains at, 119.
"Couleur Isabelle" Dresses, Origin of, 46, 47.
Cowdenknowes, Curse of the House of, 25.
Cowdray Castle, 19, 20.
Cows at Chartley Park, 187-189
Cranbrook, Sir R. Baker at, 110-112.
Cranstoun, Capt., 296, 297.
Crawford, Earl of, 99.
"Crawls," The, Estate named, 22.
Creslow Manor House, Mysterious Room at, 105, 106.
Crichton Chancellor, Banquet given by, 80, 81.
Cuckfield Place, 180, 181.
Cullen, Viscount, Marriage Feast of, 69-71.
Cunliffes, The, of Billington, 105
Curious Secrets, 135-153.
Curses: M'Alister Family, 2-5;
The Curse of Moy, 6-9;
Idiot's Curse, 9, 10;
Quaker's Curse, 10-12;
A Shepherd's Curse on Sir J. Arundell, 12, 13;
Curse on the Family of Mar, 14-17;
On Sherborne Castle, 17-19;
On Cowdray Castle, 19, 20;
The Curse of Furvie, 23;
Of Ettrick Hall, 24, 25;
On the Earl of Home, 25;
Of Edmund, King of the East Angles, 26;
On Capt. Molloy, 26, 27;
The Midwife's Curse, 27, 28.
Dalrymple, Janet, 52-56.
Dalzell, Gen., 85, 86.
Danby Hall, Secret Room at, 98.
Danesfield, Withered Hand at, 161.
Darrells, The, of Littlecote House, 106-108.
Dauntesey, Eustace, Story of, 173-176.
Dead Hand, The, 154-161.
Death Omens, 180-191.
Deloraine, Countess of, 295.
D'Eon, Chevalier, in Woman's Attire, 220-222.
Derwentwater, Lord, Execution of, 130, 131.
Despencer, Lord le, 259, 260.
Devil Compacts, 162-179.
"Devil upon Dun" Public House, Story of the, 163, 164.
"Dickie," Skull called, at Tunstead, 33, 34.
Dickens, Chas., Original of Miss Havisham, 50, 51.
Dilston Groves, Ghost of the, 131
Disappearances, Extraordinary, 229-252.
Disguise, Romance of, 208-228.
Dobells, Seat of the, 97.
Doggett, Wm., Suicide of, 121.
Don Carlos, Col. Fred. Burnaby and, 212, 213.
Doughty, Sir Edward, 23;
Vow made by, 64.
Douglas, Sir James, and the Heart of Robert Bruce, 257, 258.
Douglas, Earl of, at Sir A. Livingstone's Banquet, 80, 81.
Downes, Roger, of Wardley Hall, 37-40.
Dragon at Bromfield, Story of, 268, 269.
Drake, Sir Francis, Befriended by the Devil, 170-173.
Draycot, Walter Long of, 141-144.
Drinking Glass in possession of Sir George Musgrave, 202, 203.
Drummer, Mysterious, at Cortachy Castle, 189, 190.
Duckett, Justice, 11-12.
Dunbar, David, and Jane Dalrymple, 53-56.
Dundas, Laird named, Lord Hopetoun and, 84, 85.
Eagle's Crag, Lady Sybil and the, 168-170.
"Earl Beardie," 99.
Eastbury House, Blood Stains at, 121.
Easterton Ghost, The, 123, 124.
East Lavington, Mysterious Crime at, 123, 124.
Eccentric Vows, 46-68.
Eden Hall, Tradition relating to, 202, 203.
Edgewell Oak, Tradition, 181.
Edgeworth, Col., 67.
Edinburgh, Mysterious Crime at; Sir Walter Scott and, 108-110.
Edmund, King of the East Angles, 25, 26.
Edward, Lord Bruce, Heart of, 254
Edward, Lord Windsor, The Body of, 259.
Edward the Confessor and Earl Godwin, 79, 80.
Edward I., The Heart of, 256, 257.
Edward II., The Murder of, 88, 89.
Eleanor, Duchess of Buckingham, 255.
Ellesmere, Countess of, and the Wardley Hall Skull, 40.
Elizabeth, Queen, and Sir Henry Lee, 47, 48.
Erskine, Mr. Thomas, 287.
Erskine of Mar, The, 16.
Ettrick Hall, Curse of, 24, 25.
Evans, Right Hon. George, Tale of, 71-73.
Evelyn's "Diary," and Ham House, Weybridge, 95.
Exeter, Coins found in, 268.
Extraordinary Disappearances, 229-252.
Family Death Omens, 180-198.
Fanshaw, Lady, Strange Spectre of, 192.
Fardell, Stone at, 271.
Fatal Curses, 1-28.
Fatal Passion, 289-307.
Ferguson, Agnes, Disappearance of, 235, 236.
"Field of Forty Footsteps," Tale of the, 128, 129.
Fielding, Beau, and Robert Perceval, 150, 151.
Flamsteed, the Astronomer, 281.
Foote, Accident to, 283.
Forrester, First Lord, 290, 291.
Foulis, Mr. Robert, 280.
Fox, George, at Armscott Manor, 96.
Freke, Sir Ralph, Daughter of, 71-73.
Furness Abbey, Romance of, 56-58.
Furvie, Curse of, 23.
Galeazzo of Mantua, Ball given by, 49.
Garnet, Father, 91, 93.
Garnett, Dr. Richard, and Skull at Bottiscombe, 30-32.
Garrick, David, and Agnes Ferguson, 235, 236.
Garswood, "Dead Hand" at, 160.
Gascoyne, Sir Crisp, 240.
Gladstone, Mr., Address on Wedgwood's Life, 281.
Glamis Castle, Tradition relating to, 98-103.
Goblet in possession of Colonel Wilks, 201, 202.
Godwin, Earl, Edward the Confessor and, 79, 80.
Goldbridge, 26.
Goodere, Sir John, Murder of, 82, 83.
Gordon, Mr., of Ardoch Castle, Daughters of, 285-288.
Gordon Castle, Tree at, 182.
Grayrigg Hall, 11, 12.
Grey, Dr. Z., and Bust of Charles I., 133, 134.
Guisboro' Priory, The Monks of, 274.
Gunpowder Conspirators, The, at Hendlip Hall, 92, 93.
Gunwalloe Parish Church, Tradition relating to, 64, 65.
Haddon Hall, "Dorothy Vernon's Door" at, 213-215.
Haigh Hall, Romance associated with, 246-248.
Hale, Sir Matthew, in Disguise, 227, 228.
Ham House, Weybridge, Secret Rooms at, 95.
Hand, The Dead, 154-161.
Hannen, Sir James, and the case of de Niceville, 265
Hapton Tower, 168, 169.
Harper, Story of an old Irish, 271, 272.
Harpham Hall, 41, 42.
Harrington, Sir John, 18.
Hastings Priory, Skulls from, 32.
Havisham, Miss, The original of, 50, 51.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and the Legend of "The Bloody Footsteps," 115, 116.
Heart Burial on the Continent, 260.
Hearts, Honoured, 253-262.
Helston, Mother, a Lancashire witch, 169.
Hendlip Hall, Secret Room at, 91-93.
Herbert, Sir Richard, at the Battle of Edgcot Field, 5, 6.
Hermitage Castle, Story of, 166;
Treasures Hidden in, 270, 271, 276.
Hidden Money and Treasure, Traditions _re_, 268-278.
Hill, Captain R., 301-303.
Hoby, Sir Thomas, 123.
Holland House, Room at, 120.
Holyrood Palace, Blood Stains on floor of, 117.
Home of Cowdenknowes, Family of, 25.
Honoured Hearts, 253-262.
Hopetoun, Earl, and Laird named Dundas, 84, 85.
Horndon-on-the-Hill Church, 254, 255.
Howe, Mr., Strange Disappearance of, 244-246.
Howe, Lord, and "John Taylor," 211.
Howgill, Francis, a Noted Quaker, 10-12.
Hoxne, Tradition at, 26.
Hulme Hall, Legend connected with, 269, 270.
Hume's "History of the House of Douglas," 81.
Hungerford, Vault of the, 256.
Idiot's Curse, The, 9, 10.
Indelible Blood Stains, 114-134.
Indre, M'Alister, Curse of, 2-5.
Ingatestone Hall, Strange Room at, 94.
"Ingoldsby Legends," Dead Hand mentioned in, 160, 161.
Iron Chest in Ireland, Story of an, 205, 206.
Isabella, Countess of Northampton, 256.
Isabella Eugenia, of the Netherlands, 46, 47.
Isabella, Queen, 49.
Ithon, John de, Story of, 178, 179.
James II., The Heart of, 259.
Jerratt, Lady, Ghost Story of, 119, 120.
Joan, Queen of Naples, 49.
Johnson, Dr., Conversations with a Man in Woman's attire, 224.
Joinville, Count Louis, 138-140.
Jones, Molly, Sir Wm. Kyte and, 298-300.
"Katie Neevie's Hoard," 271.
Kellie, The two Countesses of, 285-288.
Kempenfeldt, Admiral, 182.
Kersal Hall, Romantic Story of, 173-176.
Kilburn Priory, Legend connected with, 126, 127.
Kirdford, Piece of Ground at, 128.
Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, Family of, 183-185.
Knevett, Lord, Murder of, 118.
Konigsmark, Count, 300.
Kyte, Sir Wm., and Molly Jones, 298-300.
Lally, John, A Piper, 77, 78.
Lecky, Mr., and Devil Compacts in the Fourteenth Century, 163.
Lee, Sir Henry, Queen Elizabeth and, 47, 48.
Leech, John, Strange Story of, 175, 176.
Lefanu, Mrs., Story of "The Banshee," 193.
Legend of the Robber's Grave, 129, 130.
Leigh, Lord, Charge of Murder against, 152, 153.
Lincoln Cathedral, Blood Stains at, 118, 119.
Lincolnshire, Strange Disappearance at a Marriage in 1750, 230.
Lindsays, The, 101.
Littlecote House, Mysterious Crime at, 106-108.
Livingstone, Sir A., Banquet given by, 80, 81.
Long, Walter, of Draycot, 141-144.
Long, Sir Walter, Story of his Widow, 206, 207.
Louis XIV., Burial of Heart of, 261.
Lovat, Lord, Story of, 206.
Lovel, Lord, Disappearance of his Bride, 234.
Lovell, Lord, The Mysterious Death of, 89, 90.
"Luck of Muncaster," The, 203-205.
Lucky Accidents, 279-288.
Lynton Castle, Tradition relating to, 62-64.
Mab's Cross, near Wigan, 248.
M'Alister Family, Curse of the, 2-5.
McClean, Family of, 195.
Macfarlane, Mrs., Secret relating to, 146-149.
Mackenzie, Maria, 295.
Macleod, Dr. Norman, Anecdote told by, 66, 67.
Magdalene College, Oxford, Cup found at, 274.
Maguire, Col., and Lady Cathcart, 236-238.
Malsanger, House at, 234, 235.
Manners, John, and Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, 214, 215.
Manor House at Darlington, 119.
Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, and the Chevalier D'Eon, 221.
Mar, The Earl of, 14-17.
Market Parsonage, Mysterious crime at, 123, 124.
Marlborough, Duchess of, and Congreve, 86.
Marsh, George, the martyr, 116.
Marwell Old Hall, Traditions _re_, 234.
Mary Queen of Scots at Chartley Park, 189.
Matthews, C.J., the actor, 284.
Mazarin, Cardinal, Heart of, 262.
Medicis, Marie de, Heart of, 261.
Medicis, Queen Catherine de, Story of, 177, 178.
Merton College, Oxford, Pictures discovered at, 273.
Mertoun, Stephen de, Murder committed by, 126, 127.
Middleton Family in Yorkshire, 197.
Midwife's Curse, The, 27, 28.
Millbanke, Miss, Lord Byron and, 196, 197.
Mills, Anne, the female sailor, 209.
Misers' Hoards, 272, 273.
Missing Wills, 267.
"Mistletoe Bough," The (song), 234.
Modena, The Duke of, 85, 86.
Mohun, Lord, 301, 302.
"Moiva Borb" (song), 272.
Molloy, Captain, of H.M.S. "Cæsar," 26, 27.
Montagues, The, and Sherborne Castle, 18;
and Cowdray Castle, 19.
Montgomery Church Walls, Tale of, 129, 130.
Morley, Sir Oswald, 269.
Mountford, Wm., Murder of, 301-303.
Moy, The Curse of, 6-9.
Muncaster Castle, Room at, 203-205.
Musgrave, Sir George, 202, 203.
Mysterious Rooms, 88-113.
Newborough, Lady, Romantic Story relating to, 136-140.
Netherall, Secret Room at, 98.
Newstead Abbey, Skull at, 44, 45;
Spectre of, 196;
Lord Byron's Heart at, 260.
Niceville A.A. de, 265, 266.
Nimmo, Mrs., 290-293.
Northam Tower, Spectre at, 119.
Northumberland, Duke of, The Eleventh Daughter of the, 300, 301.
Nugent, Lord, "Memorials of Hampden," 90, 91.
Ogilvies, The, 101.
Omens, Family Death, 180-198.
Ormesby, Treasure found at the Vicarage House of, 274.
Osbaldeston Hall, Tradition relating to, 83, 84.
Oulton House, Tragedy at, 303.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, Murder of, 19.
Owls, The Family of Arundel of Wardour and, 185.
Oxenham Family, Death Warning of the, 185-187.
Page, Murderer of a Jew named Abrams, 251, 252.
Paré, Ambrose, the Surgeon, 285.
Parma, Duke of, and Baron Ward, 284.
Passion, Fatal, 289-307.
Payne, Col. Stephen, Curse on, 27, 28.
Pear, The Coalstoun, 199-201.
Pembroke, Earl of, at the Battle of Edgcot Fields, 5, 6.
Pennington, Sir John, 204.
Perceval, Robert, Strange Death of, 150-152.
Phillipson, Myles, 35-37.
Pitt, Wm., Accident to, 283.
Plaish Hall, Legendary Tale connected with, 132.
Poe, Edgar A., "Masque of the Red Death," 73-75.
Political Vows, 68.
Pope's Satire, 282.
Possessions, Weird, 199-207.
Poyntz, Mr. Stephen, 21.
Prestwich, Sir Thomas, 269, 270.
Price, Mr., 295.
Prophecy relating to Cowdray Castle, 19, 20.
Pudsey, Bishop, 119.
Quaker's Curse, The, 10-12.
Radcliffe, Tragedy at, 293, 294.
Radclyffe, Sir Wm. de, 293, 294.
"Radiant Boy" of Corby Castle, 196.
Raffles, Dr., Amusing Story in the Life of, 233, 234.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, and Sherborne Castle, 18, 19;
Seat at Fardell, 271.
Rawlinson, Dr. R., The Heart of, 259.
Richard I., The Heart of, 258.
Rizzio, Murder of, 117.
Robinson, Nicholas, Disappearance of, 241-243.
Roby's "Traditions of Lancashire:" The "Dead Hand" at Bryn Hall, 157, 158;
and the "Luck of Muncaster," 204, 205.
Roderham, Robert de, Story of, 178, 179.
Romance of Wealth, 263-278.
"Rookwood Hall," Ainsworth's, 180, 181.
Rooms, Mysterious, 88-113.
Roslin, the Lords of, Traditions regarding, 190, 191.
_Royal George_, Sinking of the, 182.
Rushen Castle, Secret Room at, 103-105.
Rushton, The Duke's Room at, 70.
Russell, of Streatham, in Women's attire, 222-224.
Russell, Lady, of Bisham Abbey, 122, 123.
Rutherford, Lord, and Janet Dalrymple, 52-56.
St. Antony, Church of, in Cornwall, Tradition Relating to, 64.
St. Denis' Blood, Belief relating to, 127.
St. Foix, Account of Ceremonial after the Death of a King
of France, 86, 87.
St. Louis, Queen of, Vow by the, 65.
St. Michael's Mount, Sir J. Arundell and, 13.
Samlesbury Hall, Vow Relating to, 58-60.
Scarborough, Second Earl of, Death of, 144-146.
Scotland, Legends _re_ Hidden Treasures in, 270, 271, 276.
Scott, Sir Robert, of Thirlestane, Second wife of, 77, 78.
Scott, Sir Walter, Vow by an Ancestor of, Accident to, 68, 280;
and the Mysterious Crime at Littlecote House, 108;
at Edinburgh, 108-110;
and the Murder of Rizzio, 117;
and the Clan of Tweedie, 249.
Scott, Sir Walter, "Antiquary," 155.
Scott, Sir Walter, "Peveril of the Peak," 149, 195.
Scott, Sir Walter, "Tales of a Grandfather," 117.
Scott, Sir Walter, "The Betrothed," 248.
Scott, Sir Walter, "The Bride of Lammermoor," 55, 56.
Scott, Sir Walter, and "The Curse of Moy," 6-9.
Scott, Sir Walter, "Waverley," The Bodach Glass in, 193-195.
"Scottish Hogarth," The, 279, 280.
Screaming Skulls, 29-45.
Secrets, Curious, 135-153.
Sedgley, Vow made by a Parishioner of, 66, 67.
Servian Patriots, The, 68.
Sharp, Lieut., 304-306.
Shelley, The Poet, Heart of, 260, 261.
"Shepherd Lad," Lord Clifford as the, 224-227.
Sherborne Castle, Curse of, 17-19.
Sheriff-Muir, Battle of, 5, 15.
Shonkes, Piers, Tomb of, 166.
Shropshire, Buried Well in, 276.
Shuckburgh Hall, Tragedy at, 304-306.
Sikes, Wirt, Anecdote of a Skull, 43, 44.
Simpson, Christopher, Murder of, 115.
Skull, The Screaming, 29-45.
Skull House, near Turton Tower, Bolton, 34, 35.
Smithell's Hall, 115, 116.
Soulis, Lord, Compact with the Devil, 166-168.
Southey, Anecdote recorded by, 96.
Southey and "The Brothers' Steps," 128, 129.
Southey's "Thalaba, the Destroyer," 154, 155.
Southworth, Sir John, Daughter of, 58-60.
Spectre, Lady Fanshaw's strange, 192.
Spectre of the "Buckland Shag," 124-126.
Stair, Lord, Daughter of the first, 52-56.
Stamer, Col., Daughter of, 71-73
Stoke d'Abernon, Monument in the Church of, 56.
Stokesay Castle, Treasure at, 277.
Stoneleigh Abbey, 152, 153.
Strathmore, Lord, of Glamis Castle, 98-103.
Street Place, Old House called, 97.
Swans of Closeburn, The, 184, 185.
"Sweet Heart Abbey," 256.
Swinton, Sir John, 146-149.
Sybil, Lady, and the Eagle's Crag, 168-170.
Talbot, Mary Anne as "John Taylor," sailor, 209-212.
Talleyrand, Accident to, 280.
"Taylor, John," _alias_ Mary Anne Talbot, 209-212.
Thirlestone, Lady, 77-78.
Thomas the Rhymer, 75.
Thorpe Hall, The "Green Lady" of, 215, 216.
Thrale, Mr., of Streatham Park, 223, 224.
Thynne, Sir Egremont, 141-144.
Thynne of Longleat, Murder of, 300.
Tichborne, Sir Henry, 21.
Tichborne, Lady Mabelle, 21-23.
Tichborne Trial, The Great, 21-23, 64.
"Tiger Earl," The, 99.
Timberbottom, Skull at Farmhouse called, 34, 35.
Towneley, Charles, 10.
Treasures concealed in the Earth, 267, 268.
Tremeirchon Church, 165.
Trentham, Elizabeth, Viscount Cullen and, 69-71.
Trent, Manor House at, Strange Chamber in, 96, 97.
Tufnell Park, Find of Gold at, 278.
Tunstead, Skull at, 33, 34.
Tweedie, The Clan of, 249, 250.
Vardon, Douce, a Midwife, 28.
Vavasour, Mrs. A., and Sir Henry Lee, 48.
Venice, Statue at, 65, 66.
Vernons of Hanbury, Cecil, Earl of Exeter, and one of the, 217-220.
Vienna, The Church of St. Charles, 65.
Vincent, Family of, at Stoke d'Abernon, 56.
Voltaire, Vow in one of his Romances, 51, 52.
Vows, Eccentric, 46-68.
Wakefield Mills, The, 130.
Walpole and Berkeley Castle, 88, 89.
Ward, Baron, 284.
Wardley Hall, Skull at, 37-40.
Wealth, Romance of, 263-278.
Wedgwood, Josiah, 280, 281.
Weird Possessions, 199-207.
Wellington, Duke of, Strange belief on the occasion of his funeral, 198.
Wells, "Mother," 240, 241.
Wesley, John, and the game of whist, 67, 68.
Westminster Abbey, Hearts of Illustrious Personages at, 253.
Whitehead, Paul, The Heart of, 259, 260.
Widow's Curse, The, 2-5.
Wilkinson, Tate, 67, 68.
Wilks, Col., Heirloom in possession of, 201, 202.
Wills, Missing, 267.
Witches' Horseblock, The, 168-170.
Wordsworth's "Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle," 225-227.
Wye Coller Hall, Room at, 105.
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