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| Roseberry. Towards the weste there stands a highe hill called Roseberry Toppinge, which is a marke to the seamen and an almanacke to the vale, for they have this ould ryme common, ' When Roseberrye Toppinge weares a cappe Let Cleveland then beware a clappe.' For indeed yt seldome hath a cloude on yt that some yll weather shortly followes yt not, when not farre from thence on a mountayne's syde there are cloudes almoste contynually smoakinge, and therefore called the Divels Kettles, which notwithstandinge prognostycate neither good norbadde ; . . . yt hath somtymes had an hermitage on yt, and a small smith's forge cut out of the rock, together with a clefte or cut in the rocke called St. Winifryd's Needle, whither blynde devotyon led many a syllie soule, not without hazard of a breaknecke tumblinge caste, while they attempted to put themselves to a needlesse payne creepyng through that needle's eye. A Description of Cleveland in a letter addressed by H. Tr. to Sir T. Chaloner. [From the MS. Cotton. Julius F. VI., p. 431.] Printed in the Topographer and Genea- logist, edited by John Gough Nichols. Vol. ii., pp. 405-430. London 1853. Lifted from PUBLICATIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY COUNTY FOLK-LORE XLV/ 1899. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo29th November 2007ce Edited 30th November 2007ce
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