The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-13
ENGLISH GHOST STORIES.
Many Old Castles and Manors Have
Their Spectres.

A few nights before the battle of
Naseby, the ill-fated Charles | was
sleeping in an old manor house,
named Lukeham Old Hall, the Lieut.
enant Rastall, in his History OF
Southwell," gives the following &C
count of a weird happening there:
Two hours after the king had re-
tired to rest, some of his attendants
hearing an uncommon noise in his
chamber, went into it,and found his
majesty sitting up in bed and much
agitated, but they could see nothing
which could have produced the noise
they had heard.
Foretelling His Defeat.
The king, in a trembling voice, in
uuired after the cause of their alarm
and told them how much he had been
agitated in dream by thinking he
saw the apparition of Lord Stafford,
who, after upbraiding him with his
unkindness told him he was come to
return good for evil, and that he ad-
yised him by no means to fight the
parliamentary army that was at that
time quartered at Northampton for
it was one the king could not con-
quer by arms.
The weakness and vaciilation of
the king, had, as everybody knows,
allowed Stafford to come to the
block, and his death was very much
on the kings conscience. But with
daylight Prince Rupert pooh poohed
the kings dreams and urged him to
meet the enemy.
The next night the apparition ap-
peared to him a second time, but
with a look of anger, assuring him
that would be the last advice he
should be permitted to give him, and
that if the king kept his resolution
OF lighting ne was uone.
Needless to say, the second warn
ing also was unheeded, and Charles
lost his kingdom and his head.
Hampton court with it's parterres
and winery looks too sunny and
cheerful to be a favorite walking
ground for ghosts. Yet probably the
palace takes some beating in the num-
Der and quality of it's ghostly inhabl-
tants. Two of Bluff King Halls half
dozen spouses regularly turned up
Jane Seymour, to wit, and Katherine
Howard
The Special Hand.
Why Jane Seymour who died at the
birth of her son, who was afterWard
Edward vi, should walk the queens
APARTMENTS with lighted candle is
not very apparent, for she was the
Bluebeard kings favorite wife, and
was neither divorced or oeheaded.
But with the beauteous Howard it is
quite otherwise. If she did not
sswalk" we would be almost surpris-
ed, for she had every reason to be
restless.
Her ieweled hand is still thrust
through the arras of chamber which
has quite lately been opened once
more to the public, or so it is stated
by such as have seen it! 1t is also
said that the beautiful chi1d-wife who
had undoubtedly erred, was coming
into this very room to plead her
cause with the. heartless king, to
throw herself at the feet of the royal
Bluebeard, but was seized by the roy
al guards and borne, shrieking away
lust as she was drawing aside the
arras to enter.
Those shrieks, gradually dying
away into the distance, may still be
heard, according to some, and that
ancient scene Of violence and mml-
nent tragedy-for later she laid her
lovely neck on the scaffold-is still
enacted in Wolsey's old palace by the
Thames.
Several we'll defined and familiar
ghosts visits the old home of the By
rons, Newstead Abbey. One OF the
poets forbears was called by reason
of his wickedness, 'Devil Byron" If
half the stories of this man are true
he certainly earned and deserved his
cognomen.
Like Lady Macbeth.
He and his sister are to be seen
riding wildly away from the hall on
certain moonlit nights. But the most
dreaded ghost at Newstead is the
Goblin Friar. He is fearsome spook
and appears only when family dlsas-
ter is imminent.
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