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History of Great Britain,
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Scenes and Legends of the Vale of Strathmore.
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All the Year Round,
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Wilts Archæological Magazine,
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Notes and Queries,
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnardine, Making the green one red.
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[25] At Blackwell, near Darlington, the murder of one Christopher Simpson is described in a pretty local ballad known as
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The Baydayle Banks Tragedy. A suspected person was committed, because when he touched the body at the inquest,
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It will have blood; they say blood will have blood; Stones have been known to move and trees to speak, Auguries and understood relations have By magot pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
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The Bloody Footstep that he, in three separate instances, founded fictions upon it. In his romance of
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Septimius he gives this graphic account of what he saw:
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On the threshold of one of the doors of Smithells Hall there is a bloody footstep impressed into the doorstep, and ruddy as if the bloody foot had just trodden there, and it is averred that on a certain night of the year, and at a certain hour of the night, if you go and look at the doorstep, you will see the mark wet with fresh blood. Some have pretended to say that this is but dew, but can dew redden a cambric handkerchief? And this is what the bloody footstep will surely do when the appointed night and hour come round. A local tradition says that the stone bearing the imprint of the mysterious footprint was once removed and cast into a neighbouring wood, but in a short time it had to be restored to its original position owing to the alarming noises which troubled the neighbourhood. This strange footprint is traditionally said to have been caused by George Marsh, the martyr, stamping his foot to confirm his testimony, and has been ever since shewn as the miraculous memorial of the holy man. The story is that