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W I L L I A M S & H U M B E R T L TD
B O D E O AS : J E R E Z DE LA F RO N T E RA, S PAI N
L o n d o n H o u s e : 3 5 S e e t h i n g L a n e E C S
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I N C O R P O R A T I N G THE N O R F O L K M A G A Z I N E
E D I T O R : J. G. L. S P E N C E
A R T E D I T O R : R. J. R I C E A D V E R T I S E M E N T M A N A G E R : J. C. B O U G H T O N
Volume 17 December 1957 Number 2
C o ^ i i e t i i s
P I C T U R E S O V E R H E A D by A. L. Loishley ... ... ... ... 62
B O O K I N G by T. Ruyner ... ... ... ... ... 71
T H E M A R S H ' L A R N s ' TH E P L A N N E R S by J. Wenlwoilh Day... ... 76
The East Anglian and his Humour ... ... ... ... 82
77ie East Anglian Scene ... ... ... ... ... 85
A S U F F O L K MAN AT S E B A S T O P O L . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Letters to the Editor ... ... ... ... ... ... 95
C H R I S T O P H E R E L L I O T T ' S C O R N E R . . .. . . . . . . . 102
T H E S N E T T I SH A M G H O S T by Herbert E. Wiseman ... ... ... 106
C R A B B E M E M O R I A L P O E T R Y C O M P E T I T I O N .. . . . . . . . 108
A N E A R L Y N O R W I C H F E S T I V A L by Ernest Blaikley ... ... 110
O U T OF D O O R S IN D E C E M B E R by J. T. Fenton ... ... ... 112
E A S T A N G L I A AN D ITS R E G I M E N T S by H. N. Peyton ... ... 115
The Month's Books ... ... ... ... ... ... 119
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T h e S n e t t i s h a m G h o s t
B y H E R B E R T E . W I S E M A N
^ O T t h e l e as t p a r t o f t h e w o r k-"-^ achieved by the Society for
Psychical Research s ince i ts foundation
in 1882 has been the collection and
thorough investigation of s tor ies of
appar i t ions s en t to them by people f r om
all par ts of the Br it ish Is les . Am ongs t
those em ana t ing f r om or connec ted in
some way with Norfolk, one of the best-
authenticated is the s tory of the
S ne t t i sham ghos t .
The s tory begins with the vis it of a
M r s . G oodeve , a Londoner , to f r i ends
living at 5 Rod ney Place, Clif ton, n ear
Br is tol. This house was repute d to be
haunted by a for m er occupant , a M r s .
Seagr im, but dur ing the two years
pr evious to Mr s . G oodev e ' s v is i t no th ing
uncanny had been exper ienced by the
tenants , Mr . and M r s . A ckland .
I t appea r s tha t M r s . G oodeve pos ses sed
psychical power , as (according to
F . W . H . M yer s w ho inves t iga ted the
case, with other members of the Society
for Psychical Research) she 'had hadsom e pr evious exper iences of appa r i
t ions, which all appeared to be ver idical,
bu t she had pa id but l i t t l e a t t en t ion to
them and had neve r sought to en
courage such vis itations in any way' .
M yers , who interviewed her on several
occasions, descr ibed her as 'a widow
lady moving in good society, with chil
dr en gr ow n- up and know n to m any
people as a cheerful, capable, active
w om an w ho had s een m uch of the w or ld
and had plenty of business of her own to
a t tend to and w as by no m eans g iven to
dw el l ing on th ings m or bid or m ys te r ious ' .
D ur ing the n ight of 8 O c tobe r 1893,
M r s G oodeve w oke suddenly and saw
leaning over her the sad and emaciated
but kindly face of a woman whose head
w as sw a thed in a shaw l . The w o m an
sa id : 'Fo l lo w m e ' , w her eupon M r s .
G oodeve , qu i te una f r a id , r ose and
followed her in to the next room , which
w as the dr aw ing- r oom . The apa r i t ion
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pr oceeded to the f a r the r end of the
r oom , s a id in a deep voice : 'To- m or r ow '
and then vanished .
M r s . G oodev e , w ho had take a l igh ted
candle with her , then returned to her room
and went to s leep. The following morn
ing she told her s tory to Mr. Ackland and
subsequent ly to a ne ighbour . D r . Mar
shall . The latter declared that the
desc r ip t ion Mr s . G oodeve gave of the
appar it ion resembled the late Mrs. Sea-
gr im, for whom he had acted as trustee
and who had been in the habit of wrap
ping her head par tly in an Indian shawl
ow ing to neur a lg ia .
'T^ H E f o l low ing n igh t M r s . G oodeve w as
aga in aw akened by the appa r i t ion
w ho sa id ;
'I have come. Lis ten! '
S he then m ade a ce r ta in s ta tem ent and
asked M r s . G oodeve to do a ce r ta in th ing .What these were the latter did not dis
c lose bu t he r subsequent ac t ions pr ob
ably gave at least a par tial indication.
Mr s . G oodeve exc la im ed: 'A m I
dream ing ? O r is this true ? '
The appa r i t ion then s a id : ' I f you
doubt me, you will f ind that I was marr ied
on 26 Septem ber 1860. '
This w as , a s Mr s . G oodeve a f te r w ards
discovered f rom Dr . Marshall , the date of
Mrs. Seagr im's marr iage in India to a
Major S eagr im . Mr s . G oode ve then saw
a man s tanding by the s ide of the f ir s t
app ar it io n. He declared himself to be a
cer tain Henry Barnard and said that he
w as 'bur ied in S ne t t i sham chur chyar d ' .
H e a sked Mr s . G oodeve to go to S ne t t i s
ham and first of all verify in the church
regis ter the dates of his marr iage and
death , which he gave her . She was then
to go into the church the foll lowing
morning at 1.15 and wait in the south
west corner of the south ais le beside the
gr ave of a ce r ta in Rober t Cobb w ho had
died 15 May 1743 aged 67. He said
fur ther that the outgoing half of her rail
way ticket to Snettisham would not be
taken f rom her , that she was to send a
white rose f rom his grave to Dr . Mar
shall , that she would obtain assis tance
from 'a dark man' who would recognise
her descr iption of the speaker and f inally
that she would lodge in the house of a
woman whose child was bur ied in the
sam e chur chyar d and had been dr ow ned.
Towards the end of the conversation
Mr s . G oodeve s aw a th i r d phantom , a
man evidently in great trouble , 'his face
so full of misery that she could hardly
bear to look upo n it . ' His nam e was not
disclosed.
" ^ E X T d a y , M r s . G o o d e v e fo u n d o u t
^ ^ f rom the Post Office that Snettish am
was in Norfolk and a few days later f romher home in London set out on her in
t r igu ing jour ney . Ever y th ing happened as
foretold. Her t icket for the outward
journey was not taken away f rom her by
the collector , the por ter took her to the
house of the par ish clerk, John Bishop,
whom she recognised at once as the 'dark
man' and who also recognised her des
cr iption of the appar it ion as that of Henry
Bar na r d , the l a te ow ner of Cobb H a l l .
His wife told her the following morning
that she had a child bur ied in the church
ya r d w ho had been dr ow ned.
O n the S unday m or ning Mr s . G oodeve
attend ed the church service and af ter
wards ver if ied all the par ticulars that had
been given her by the appar it ion of Henry
Bar na r d . John Bishop tha t s am e n ight
ar ranged to let her into the church about
1 a.m. and locked her in for half an hour .
Accordin g to her s tory she waited
by the gr ave of Rober t Cobb and
there received the rest of the message.
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which she promis ed to convey to Bar
na r d ' s on ly sur v iv ing daughte r . W ha t
that m essage was she never divulged.
The only def inite s tatement she ever made
was that she was to pluck an othe r white
rose f rom Barnard's grave and give i t to
his daughter at Cobb Hall , together with
the message, and then her task would be
d o n e .
All the above s tatements were carefully
ver ified, no t only by F. W. H. Myers
but by A ndr ew Lang and Lor d B ute , a s
active members of the Society for
Psychical Resea rch. Every person
conce rned was interviewed separately
and their accounts conf irmed the
t r u th of Mr s . G oodeve ' s r em ar kable
story. " ,
C R A B B E M E M O R I A L
P O E T R Y C O M P E T I T I O N
The th i r d annua l com pe t i t ion
organised by the Suffolk PoetrySociety as a memorial to GeorgeCrab be was judged by Mr. F . PrattGreen, Mr . T. Hcnn, M . A . , C . B . E . ,
and Mr. John Hadf ield. The winnerwas M r. F . H. A. Englehear t , S tok eP r ior y , S toke - by- N ayland , w ho a l sowon the competit ion las t year .His poem is pr inted on the next page.
Second pr ize has been awarded toMiss D. Murrell Simmons, 14
Tem ple Road , S tow m ar ke t and th i r d
pr ize to Miss Gill ian Edwards,P enr hos , W ate r S t r ee t , Cam br idge .Their poems will be published in thenear future.
Frances Cornford will present thecup and pr izes at a meeting of theSuffolk Poetry Society to be helda t the Cr ow n and A n chor H ote l ,Ipswich, on Sun day, 8 Dec 1957.
The rules for the 1958 compelit ionwill be announced in an ear ly issue.
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J E W E L S
Half in the lake I pause and s tand.
1 1 m ay not m ove to l aunch aw ay
But in the shallows s tare and s tay
Between the water and the land.
Here, where the floating lily lies.
W her e gr as ses bend above the pool .
The air is lustrous with the cool
Fragili ty of dragonf lies . ,
As one by one or two by two
They hang or f l i t with fairy mien.
Green in a subtlety of green.
Blue as the pure idea of blue.
They hang and f l i t or s tud a reed
In jade or azure parallels ,
The s tralghtly bodied demoisellesTha t bend so lissomly at need,
The l ive yet lapidary things
With dip and turn and sway and lif t .
Dar ting or poised upon the swif t
Invis ibil i ty of wings.
A nd he r e I s t ay and w a tch a lone .
Alo ne? Or could they s trangely tell .
These that I know and love so well ,
They are more loved and better known ?
That, where the sun-shot alders lean.Som e jeweller angel of this place
Makes as a por trait of a face
This l ive yet lapidary scene:
A figure cut in ivory
S e t in a m oons tone , l apped w i th l igh t ;
A nd, hung on b lades of m a lachi te ,
Brooche s of lapis lazuli ?
F . H . A . E N G L E H E A R T .