Note 132 — Vol. I.—17.
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The Saint Giles’s of Skipton, where the lower order of inhabitants generally reside.
[133] Should any reader of this day find fault with the inelegant manner in which the dialogue is carried on between Kitchen and the soldier, in defence I beg leave to say, the dialogue is told as general Bibo related it, and though in many parts of the tale I have made so many alterations, that I should not be guilty of any impropriety in calling it an original: I do not consider myself authorized to change the dialogues occasionally introduced.
[134] In Kirby Malhamdale church-yard is a public house, verifying the lines of the satirist:—
Where God erects a house of prayer, The devil builds a chapel there.
[135] Skipton-castle.
[136] Rylstone-hall. See Wordsworth’s beautiful poem the White Doe.
[137] History of Craven.