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Isle of Wight Story Notes

Preface

The Pied Pipe of Newtown

Abraham Elder and The Pied Piper of Newtown
A Visit to Newtown
Seventeenth Century English Language Tellings of the Hamelin Tale
On the Trail of Mr Elder
Additional Notes — Pied Piper of Newtown

Other Nursery Rhymes and Tales

The Three Little Pigs

Godshill

A Visit to Godshill

The Pepperpot

The History of the Pepperpot
Walter de Godeton and the Shipwrecked Wine

Carisbrooke Castle: Residents' Tales

When the Island Went to War With France

Hanging in Chains

The Murder of James Dove and the Hanging in Chains of Michal Morey

The Ardlamont Affair

A Tragic Accident

Nurseries of Vice and Invention

Introductory Remarks
A Barracks Town and a New Mayor
Culturally Speaking
A Picture of Newport
The New Church
A Letter to the Town Magistrates
A Contentious New Year’s Day Tract
Aside — Revd. Carus Wilson and the Soldiers’ Institutes
The Pittis Libel Case
Following the Libel Case
The New Church is Opened
Life Continues
Carus Wilson Continues To Have His Say
The Death of Currer Bell
The School for Clergymen’s Daughters, Cowen Bridge
A Public Controversy Plays Out
Supporting the Troops
The Final Year
Appendix — Portsmouth in Flames (Tract)
A Vindication of the Clergy Daughters’ School
Appendix — Carus Wilson Memoir

Appendix — Original Tellings

Legends of the Isle of Wight: Godshill
A Legend of Puckaster

Appendix — Retellings

Godshill Tall Tale
Puckaster Cove Fairy Tale

Spithead Mutiny (WIP)

The Spithead Mutiny
Chronology
Spithead Mutiny — Original News Reports

Appendix — Resources

Historical Isle of Wight Books
Other Isle of Wight Storynotes

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By Tony Hirst

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