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COCK LANE GHOST

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 627 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COCK LANE GHOST , a supposed apparition, the vagaries of which attracted extraordinary public attention in London during 1762. At a
house
  in Cock
Lane
 , Smithfield, tenanted by one
Parsons
 , knockings and other noises were said to occur at night varied by the
appearance
  of a luminous figure, alleged to be the
ghost
  of a Mrs Kent who had died in the
house
  some two years before. A thorough investigation revealed that ,
Parsons
 ' daughter, a child of eleven, was the source of the disturbance. The
object
  of the Parsons family seems to have been to accuse the
husband
  of the deceased woman of murdering her, with a view to
blackmail
 . Parsons was prosecuted and condemned to the pillory. Among the crowds who visited the
house was Dr Johnson, who was in consequence made the
object
  of a scurrilous attack by the poet Charles Churchill in " The
Ghost
 ."
See A. Lang, Cock
Lane
  and Common Sense (1894).


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