{"id":5879,"date":"2018-07-22T22:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T21:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2018-07-22T22:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T21:58:43","slug":"legends-of-the-moorlands-and-forests-of-staffordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/07\/22\/legends-of-the-moorlands-and-forests-of-staffordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of the Moorlands and Forests of Staffordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/moorland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/moorland.jpg?w=184\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5880\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miss Dakeyne, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/legends_of_the_moorlands_and_forest.pdf\">Legends of the Moorlands and Forests of Staffordshire<\/a><\/em>, Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1860.<\/p>\n<p>78-pages, printed in Leek.  Retold as reciting verse in the style of the time, with &#8220;A Legend of Lud Church&#8221; in prose. <em>Staffordshire Poets<\/em> (1928) was unable to discover her first name, but noted \u201cHer family were silk manufacturers, of Gradbach Mill\u201d and a <em>Country Life<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Reliquary<\/em> summarised it thus: &#8220;The metrical legends are &#8220;The Chieftain,&#8221; relating to Hugo de Spencer and Sir Swithelm of the Ley, of the time of the Holy Wars [12th-13th century]; &#8220;Caster&#8217;s Bridge&#8221;, a legend of a band of desperadoes [in the Dane valley]; &#8220;The Heritage&#8221;, a sad tradition relating to an old house; and &#8220;Lud Church&#8221;, an episode in the Rebellion of 1745.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;A Legend of Lud Church&#8221; in prose. Staffordshire Poets (1928) was unable to discover her first name, but noted \u201cHer family were silk manufacturers, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}