Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-07
english GHOST STORIES
MANY Old Castles and Mdn0rS Have
Their S]eCtfeS.
THE SHADES give Vain WARNINGS
shrieks Heard at Hampton Court
Lord Stafford Warmed First Char.


les In Vain.
\ few nights before the battle Of
Naseby, the i.l-fated Charles I was
sleeping at an old manor house,
named Lukcham Old Hall. the Lieut.
enant Rastall, in his History of
Southwell," gives the following ac-
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 Lis
majesty sitting up in bed and much
agitated, but they could see nothing
which could have produced the noise
they had heard.
.ForetelIing His Defeat.
The king. in trembling voice. in
uuired after the cause Of their alarm
and told them how much he had been
a:stated in 4 dream by thinking he
saw the apparition of Lord Stafford.
who, after upbraiGing him with his
unkindness told him he was come to
return good for evil, and that he ad-
vised him by no means to fight the
parliamentary army that was at that
time quartered at Northampton for
It was one TIE king could not con-
quer by arms.
The weakness and vacillation Of tho
king, had. as everybody knows, al
lowed Stafford 10 come to the block,
and his death was very much on tho
kings conscience. But with daylight,
Prince Rupert pooh roohed the kings
dreams and urged him to meet the
enemy.
The next night the apraration ap-
peared TO him n second time. but with
I look of anger. assuring him that
would be the last advice he should
nc permitted to give him, and that II
the king kept his resolution OF fight.
ing he was undone.
Needless to say. the second warning
also was UNDECIDED, and Charles lost
his kingdom and his head.
Hampton court with its parterreS
md winery, looks too sunny and
cheerful TO be a favorite walking
ground for ghosts. Yet probably the
rri!uce takes some beating in the num-
Der and quality Of its ghoatly inhabi-
tants. Two Of R'unr King Halls half
dozen spouscs regularly turned Up
lane Seymour, 10 wit. and Katherine
Howard.
The Special Hand.
Why Jane Seymour who died at the
birth Of her son. who WAS aftcrward
Edward VI, should walk the queens
apartments with Il lighted candle is
not. very apparent. for she was the
3lucbcard kings favorite wife, and
was neither divorced nor bchchdcd.
But with the hcautcouS Howard 1t is
quite otherwise. If she did not
walk" we would he almost surprised,
for she had every reason to be rest
less.
Her jeweled hand is still thrust
through the arras Of Il 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 child-wife who
lad undoubtedly erred. was coming
INTO this very room to plead her
cause with the hcartless king, to
throw herself at the feet Of the royal
Bluebaard, but was seized by the royal
guards and borne, shricking away just
rs she was drawing aside the arras
20 enter.
Those shrieks, gradually dying
away into the distance. may still be
heard. according to some, and that
ancient scene Of violence and imml-
ncnt 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 visit the old home Of the BY
rons. Ncwstcad Abbey. One Of the
poets forbears was called by reason
of his wickedness, Devil Byron" If
half the stories Of this man arc true
he certainly earned and deserved mis-
cOgnomen.
Like Lady Macbeth.
He and his sister are to he seen rid
ing wildly away from the hall on cer-
tain moonlit nights. But the most
dreaded ghost at Ncwstcad is the
Goblin I'riar. lie is 4 fearsume spook
and appears only when family disaster
is imminent.
VoyaGers up the Thames are fami-
liar with Mcdmenham Abbcy--a house
which Edward vi bestowed on the
Habye family. and where that young
kings half sister. Elizabeth afterwards
The great queen, spent three Of her
girlh0od's years in captivity.
There is i rather horrible story at
tachcd to this lovely old house. 1t il
said that Il. certain Lady Habye had II
terrible temper and that she whipped
her littl" son TO death for blntting his