Archive for November 30th, 2007

Friday, November 30th, 2007

John Watmough High Constable of Halifax

 ’From Hull, from Halifax, from Hell, ’tis thus
From all these three Good Lord deliver us’
 John Taylor 
Haifax in Tudor times was a very rough and ready place where a quarrel between two men could often result in a death. Even the clergy were  not safe. Vicar Robert Holdsworth was murdered when his vicarage was pillaged and […]

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