Bucklebury

But when he sat down to write, he wrote very much as Wesley had written before him, Wesley the all-observant and all-reading, like a man whose pen had little time for anything off the line of his public or private Christian ministry.

Charles Simeon's father was Richard Simeon, a squire, the son and grandson of successive vicars of Bucklebury in Berkshire and descended directly from the Simeons of Oxfordshire, a house which had given a wife to John Hampton.

His mother was Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of a family from which came two archbishops to the Sea of York, each of them a Matthew Hutton, the former under Elizabeth, the latter under George II.

When this is said about Mrs. Simeon, all is recorded which can be gathered either from memoirs of her son or from the recollections of his yet surviving friends.

But when he sat down to write, he wrote very much as Wesley had written before him, Wesley the all-observant and all-reading, like a man whose pen had little time for anything off the line of his public or private Christian ministry.

Charles Simeon's father was Richard Simeon, a squire, the son and grandson of successive vicars of Bucklebury in Berkshire and descended directly from the Simeons of Oxfordshire, a house which had given a wife to John Hampton.

His mother was Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of a family from which came two archbishops to the Sea of York, each of them a Matthew Hutton, the former under Elizabeth, the latter under George II.

When this is said about Mrs. Simeon, all is recorded which can be gathered either from memoirs of her son or from the recollections of his yet surviving friends.

Wesley, the all-observant and all-reading, like a man whose pen had little time for anything off the line of his public or private Christian ministry.

Charles Simeon's father was Richard Simeon, Esquire, the son and grandson of successive vicars of Bucklebury in Berkshire and descended directly from the Simeons of Oxfordshire, a house which had given a wife to John Hampden.

His mother was Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of a family from which came two archbishops to the Sea of York, each of them a Matthew Hutton, the former under Elizabeth, the latter under George II.

When this is said about Mrs. Simeon, all is recorded which can be gathered either from memoirs of her son or from the recollections of his yet surviving friends.

But when he sat down to write, he wrote very much as Wesley had written before him, Wesley the all-observant and all-reading, like a man whose pen had little time for anything off the line of his public or private Christian ministry.

Charles Simeon's father was Richard Simeon, a squire, the son and grandson of successive vicars of Bucklebury in Berkshire and descended directly from the Simeons of Oxfordshire, a house which had given a wife to John Hampton.

His mother was Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of a family from which came two archbishops to the Sea of York, each of them a Matthew Hutton, the former under Elizabeth, the latter under George II.

When this is said about Mrs. Simeon, all is recorded which can be gathered either from memoirs of her son or from the recollections of his yet surviving friends.

But when he sat down to write, he wrote very much as Wesley had written before him, Wesley the all-observant and all-reading, like a man whose pen had little time for anything off the line of his public or private Christian ministry.

Charles Simeon's father was Richard Simeon, a squire, the son and grandson of successive vicars of Bucklebury in Berkshire and descended directly from the Simeons of Oxfordshire, a house which had given a wife to John Hampton.

His mother was Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of a family from which came two archbishops to the Sea of York, each of them a Matthew Hutton, the former under Elizabeth, the latter under George II.

When this is said about Mrs. Simeon, all is recorded which can be gathered either from memoirs of her son or from the recollections of his yet-surviving friends.

But when he sat down to write, he wrote very much as Wesley had written before him, Wesley the all-observant and all-reading, like a man whose pen had little time for anything off the line of his public or private Christian ministry.

Charles Simeon's father was Richard Simeon, a squire, the son and grandson of successive vicars of Bucklebury in Berkshire and descended directly from the Simeons of Oxfordshire, a house which had given a wife to John Hampton.

His mother was Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of a family from which came two archbishops to the Sea of York, each of them a Matthew Hutton, the former under Elizabeth, the latter under George II.

When this is said about Mrs. Simeon, all is recorded which can be gathered either from memoirs of her son or from the recollections of his yet surviving friends.

Here's the first.

In 1977, Cecilia Milson, herself a long-standing resident of Bucklebury, recorded a local anecdote concerning ghosts that were not what they seemed.

At one time, this alleged, the people of the village of Bucklebury were afraid to go out at night because of rumors that a ghostly procession would often be seen passing along certain winding lanes.

Four figures in white would silently go by, carrying a coffin.

But one man, bolder than the others, lay in wait for the ghosts, and when they appeared, jumped out and started beating the nearest one with a stout stick.

All four ran away, dropping the coffin, which on inspection turned out to be a stolen sheep.

Anecdotes in which supposed ghostly phenomena turn out to be tricks devised by smugglers or poachers are common enough to be themselves a form of folklore about folklore.

Bucklebury, by the way, is a village in Berkshire, just east of London.

But when he sat down to write, he wrote very much as Wesley had written before him, Wesley the all-observant and all-reading, like a man whose pen had little time for anything off the line of his public or private Christian ministry.

Charles Simeon's father was Richard Simeon, Esquire, the son and grandson of successive vicars of Bucklebury in Berkshire and descended directly from the Simeons of Oxfordshire, a house which had given a wife to John Hampton.

His mother was Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of a family from which came two archbishops to the Sea of York, each of them a Matthew Hutton, the former under Elizabeth, the latter under George II.

When this is said about Mrs. Simeon, all is recorded which can be gathered either from memoirs of her son or from the recollections of his yet surviving friends.