Ghostly apparations

Edge Hill ghosts

Ghostly apparations


This is taken from a brochure found at St Peter's, Radway:
On Christmas Eve, 1642, a Saturday, between Noon and 1 o'clock in the morning, "strange and portentious apparations of two jarring and contrary armies" were seen in the air at Edge Hill by some shepherds and other countrymen. For several hours the ghostly armies re-enacted the battle of Edge Hill with much noise of drums and firearms and then vanished. The terrified observers made all haste to Kineton and awoke the Justice of the Peace and the minister, told their story and swore to its truth. The same apparations were seen the next night and on the following Saturday and Sunday nights. When they appeared again the next weekend the King, who was at Oxford at the time, sent several of his officers who stayed until the Saturday night following, when the apparitions appeared again and the officers were able to identify them as their fellows killed in the battle.

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