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The History of Pontefract
Excerpt from The History of Pontefract: In Yorkshire What is man, If his chief good, and market Of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he, that made us With such large discourse Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unused.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire;
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The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire
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Pontefract (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Pontefract With the exception of York, no town in Yorkshire is more closely connected with English history than Pontefract, which is as Dean Swift said of it, in all our histories. Yet, curiously enough, no history of town or castle has yet appeared, save from local printing presses. Boothroyd published one such volume in 1807; Fox, another, twenty years later. The one man who could have written a really great book about the place, Richard Holmes, certainly one of the most able archae ologists of his day, spent his energies in numerous publications, all valuable, but unconnected, and all serving to show the riches of the mine in which some future historian may yet delve to more ...
The Black Monk of Pontefract
"When an object materialises out of thin air before your very eyes - you write a book." In the late sixties, 30 East Drive, Pontefract, became home to one of the most infamous poltergeist casesthe world has ever seen. When co-author and former sceptic Bil Bungay bought the house in order to promote a movie, he had no idea that a powerful, terrifying, entity - one capable of defying the laws of physics - was still very much in residence. This book provides first-hand eyewitness testimonies and reams of recent evidence to make the case that the house is indeed home to extraordinary paranormal phenomena, and then asks the question: Just What the heck is a poltergeist, anyway?
