CAPTAIN WILLIAM ROGERS
Captain William Rogers, son of Captain Rogers, who died in November, 1790, was born at…
CAPTAIN TOBIAS MARTIN
Tobias Martin, better known as Cap’n Toby, was born in the parish of Wendron on…
CAPTAIN RICHARD KEIGWIN
The English East India Company had been founded December 31st, 1600, and it obtained from…
CAPTAIN JOHN PALK
In the forties and fifties no man was better known as a character in Tavistock…
CAPTAIN JOHN AVERY
Concerning this captain it is not easy to give a trustworthy account as the discrepancies…
BROTHER JUCUNDUS.
At York were two religious houses—St. Mary’s Abbey and St. Leonard’s Priory—so close together that…
BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH.[1]
Blind Jack Metcalf is certainly one of the most remarkable characters that Yorkshire has produced.…
BLACK RAM
I do not know when I had spent a more pleasant evening, or had enjoyed…
BISHOP-DYKE POND.[1]
On the Monday following Palm Sunday, being the 14th of April, 1690, William Barwick, a…
BENJAMIN R. HAYDON
The only painting by which this artist is generally known is that of Napoleon standing…