Wakefield Worthies; Or, Biographical Sketches of Men of Note Connected with Wakefield in Yorkshire
by Joseph Hirst Lupton (9781150323416)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: Hamilton Subjects: Wakefield (England) History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: GEORGE A GREEN, THE FINDER OF WAKEFIELD. This personage, who derived his name from being keeper of the pound, or pinfold for stray cattle, on the town green, appears to have early commenced his rebellion against established authority. The author of one of the popular lives of him, published in 1706, says that he was placed at school under a surly pedagogue, of which school George was captain; and being ordered to beg pardon of his master, he resolved to run away; previously taking his revenge for the whipping which he was to undergo, by thrusting his head between his master's legs, " and he cast him off from his shoulders with such a tumbling quail, as we call a back somerset, and left him lying flat upon his back, half-dead, in the midst of the school."1 When he grew up, Robin Hood, who was always on the look-out for spirits of this kind, secured him as a follower by his usual method. " Wheresoever he hard of any that were of unusual strength and hardynes," (1) Quoted in Gutch'sZj/ Geste of Robin Hood'(1847), vol. i P- 39- says the writer of an old MS. chronicle,2 " he would disgyse him selfe, and rather than fayle, go lyke a beggar, to become acqueynted with them; and after he had tryed them with fighting, never give them over tyl he had used means to draw them to lyve after his fashion. After such manner he procured the pynder of Wakefyld to be one of his company." The encounter between them, in which, " with his back to a thorn, and his foot to a stone," George a Green came off victorious, is describ...

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