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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 131

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n. There existed in the country a legend which peopled thesecaverns with the wandering souls of suicides. Deserting the places of burial formerly assignedthem at the place where four roads met, they had taken up their abode under theseinextricable vaults, and the imprudent who violated their asylum… … MORETON CORBET CASTLE. popular reports, he could not think of them without a vague terror. It was only reluctantlythat being fortified with a Bible, a wax candle, flint and steel, he took his way towardsthe ruined chapel. Hardly had he arrived there, when across a gaping wall he perceivedthe troop…

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