{"id":14,"date":"2013-05-18T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:45:12","slug":"the-hobkirk-papers-stokesley-1750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2013\/05\/18\/the-hobkirk-papers-stokesley-1750\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobkirk Papers – Stokesley 1750"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe Hobkirk Papers (Stories) – Stokesley 1750<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Isaac Hobkirk<\/b> was an innkeeper in Stokesley in 1750 and the Half Moon Inn <\/i>features often in his stories.Daphne Franks<\/b>, author of  Printing and Publishing in Stokesley 1984,<\/i> that it ‘was probably his house – One of the lost inns of Stokesley which has been located as Winscombe House, no 54, High Street.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hobkirk’s stories originally appeared in Tweddell’s Yorkshire Miscellany<\/i> in the 1840’s (gathered I think from oral sources).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDaphne Franks<\/b> continues – <\/span><\/div>\n
\n“The Stokesley of the stories is described for us in a letter of William Mason<\/b> of Middlesbrough.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n“When the markets were great gatherings of the rural folk and the farmers’ wives rode pillion and butchers shambles were filled with meat. Coals stood for sale in front of the Black Swan and the turf graver brought his wares in donkey carts from Osmotherley.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nWhen the Captains of the East India Company, the Whalers, sailors of the mercantile marine and Jack Tars of the Royal Navy, came back home to lay up for winter.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nWhen the Handloom weaving was good and intelligence among that class of operatives was great.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nWhen all these met at the hostelries (there were nineteen) to hear tales of adventure from the sailors, the sparkles of wit from the Literati of the town.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn the pdf file from Tweddell’s Miscellany the following Hobkirk stories came be found – <\/span><\/div>\n
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