Miss Dakeyne, Legends of the Moorlands and Forests of Staffordshire, Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1860.

78-pages, printed in Leek. Retold as reciting verse in the style of the time, with “A Legend of Lud Church” in prose. Staffordshire Poets (1928) was unable to discover her first name, but noted “Her family were silk manufacturers, of Gradbach Mill” and a Country Life article on the district later added that the family had been so since 1780. That may be enough information, for those with access to pay-walled ancestry databases, to identify her by name.

The Reliquary summarised it thus: “The metrical legends are “The Chieftain,” relating to Hugo de Spencer and Sir Swithelm of the Ley, of the time of the Holy Wars [12th-13th century]; “Caster’s Bridge”, a legend of a band of desperadoes [in the Dane valley]; “The Heritage”, a sad tradition relating to an old house; and “Lud Church”, an episode in the Rebellion of 1745.”