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Scans matching “Stafford”12 scans

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  Portrait of Thomas Morton, 1637, St John's College. Scan

  Attributed to Simon Luttichuys ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  William Hogarth, Enthusiasm Delineated (engraved 1761, unpublished), the earlier state of the same plate. Scan

  William Hogarth; British Museum ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  Thomas Morton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, who exposed the fraud. Scan

  Attributed to Simon Luttichuys; St John's College, Cambridge ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  William Hogarth, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1762). A shoeblack vomiting hobnails and iron staples is often identified as the Boy of Bilston. Scan

  William Hogarth; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891 ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)

  CREDULITY, SUPERSTITION and FANATICISM. AMEDLEY. Believe not every Spirit, but try the Spirits whether they are of God: because many false Prophets are gone out into the World. Design'd and Engraved by Wm Hogarth. Published as the Act directs March 9th 15th 1762.…

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  The Times, 9 August 1879, report of the shooting of the Rev. James Yates Rooker by Charles Hartland Scan

  sedgleymanor.com ·from The Lower Gornal Churchyard Ghost Scare, 1881 (1881)

  ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Yesterday morning a desperate attempt was made on the life of the Rev. J. Y. Rooker, vicar of Lower Gornal, near Wolverhampton. It appears that some two years since a man, Charles Hartland, who occupies a respectable position and is a quarry-master, was sent to goal for a disgustin…

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  Fate magazine, 1955: "Flying Saucer Over England" Scan

  Fate ·from The Unsmiling Men of Ranton: Jessie Roestenburg's Saucer at Vicarage Farm (1954)

  FLYING SAUCER OVER ENGLAND I WAS very interested in your article on flying saucers. It was whilst reading your article that the evening paper arrived, and I enclose a cutting which I hope may be of some interest to you. Having studied the sketch I am struck with the close resemblance to the photogra…

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  Flying Saucer Review, 1957: "Flying Cigar at Stafford" Scan

  Flying Saucer Review ·from The Unsmiling Men of Ranton: Jessie Roestenburg's Saucer at Vicarage Farm (1954)

  Flying Cigar at Stafford. Several Stafford people saw a strange object shaped like a cigar and glowing bright orange, high over the town at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 10. One of those who observed the cigar was Mrs. Jesse Roestenberg. (Flying saucer researchers will recall that in October, 1954,…

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  Project Blue Book file page: Wilfrid Daniels' May 1957 report on Stafford sightings Scan

  Project Blue Book ·from The Unsmiling Men of Ranton: Jessie Roestenburg's Saucer at Vicarage Farm (1954)
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  Ranton, Staffordshire Scan

  Blue Blurry Lines ·from The Unsmiling Men of Ranton: Jessie Roestenburg's Saucer at Vicarage Farm (1954)
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  High Street, Stone, about 1955 to 1960. Street scene for context; not confirmed to show the supermarket site. Scan

  Staffordshire Museum Service, ref P96.006.0127 ·from The Tesco "Charlie" Poltergeist: A Haunted Supermarket in Stone, Staffordshire (1975)
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  High Street, Stone, 1985, looking north from near the Market Square. Not confirmed to show the supermarket site. Scan

  Tony Boydon / Staffordshire Museum Service, ref P2005.004.2441 ·from The Tesco "Charlie" Poltergeist: A Haunted Supermarket in Stone, Staffordshire (1975)
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  Extract from the Met Office Mercury magazine, July/August 1996, with Wayne Elliott's account of his sighting at RAF Shawbury Scan

  Crown Copyright ·from The Cosford Incident (1993)

  The Met. O X-Files File 1/96/A: Spooky sightings in Shropshire 31 March 1993, RAF Shawbury: Just after midnight 0115: MET. OFFICE observer Wayne Elliott received a call from the MoD Police at RAF Cosford saying a family on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border had just had a close encounter with a cra…