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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8)

Note R — THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE;

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"At the East end of the North aisle of Bolton Priory Church is a chantry belonging to Bethmesly Hall, and a vault, where, according to tradition, the Claphams" (who inherited this estate, by the female line from the Mauliverers) "were interred upright." John de Clapham, of whom this ferocious act is recorded, was a name of great note in his time; "he was a vehement partisan of the House of Lancaster, in whom the spirit of his chieftains, the Cliffords, seemed to survive."—W. W. 1815.

This quotation is from Dr. Whitaker's History of the Deanery of Craven.—Ed.

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