Part 3

Hannah Green; or, "Ling Bob" 139

Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope 141

Hermits and Eremitical Life 145

The Recluses of Llangollen 155

Snuff-taking Legacies 158

Burial Bequests 159

Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill 163

Jeremy Bentham's Bequest of his Remains 166

The Marquis of Anglesey's Leg 169

The Cottle Church 171

Horace Walpole's Chattels saved by a Talisman 174

Norwood Gipsies 177

"Cunning Mary," of Clerkenwell 179

"Jerusalem Whalley" 181

Father Mathew and the Temperance Movement 182

Eccentric Preachers 184

Irving a Millenarian 187

A Trio of Fanatics 189

The Spenceans 197

Joanna Southcote, and the Coming of Shiloh 198

The Founder of Mormonism 210

Huntington, the Preacher 219

Amen--Peter Isnell 231

Strangely Eccentric, yet Sane 232

Strange Hallucination 236

"Corner Memory Thompson" 238

Mummy of a Manchester Lady 239

Hypochondriasis 240