COCK LANE GHOST
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V06,
Page 627
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
COCK LANE GHOST
, a supposed apparition, the vagaries of which attracted extraordinary public attention in London during 1762
.
At a house in Cock Lane, Smithfield, tenanted by one Parsons, knockings and other noises were said to occur at night varied by the appearance of a luminous figure, alleged to be the ghost of a Mrs Kent who had died in the house some two years before
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A thorough investigation revealed that ,Parsons' daughter, a child of eleven, was the source of the disturbance
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The object of the Parsons family seems to have been to accuse the husband of the deceased woman of murdering her, with a view to blackmail
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Parsons was prosecuted and condemned to the pillory
.
Among the crowds who visited the
house was Dr See also: - JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, who was in consequence made the object of a scurrilous attack by the poet Charles Churchill in " The Ghost."
See A
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Lang, Cock Lane and Common Sense (1894)
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