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[[File:Cock lane ghost.png|250px|thumb|alt=A monochrome illustration of a narrow street, viewed from a corner, or intersection. A large three-storey building is visible on the right of the image. The ground floor has three windows, the first and second floors have two windows each. The roof appears to contain a row of windows, for a loft space.  The word "KING" is written between the first and second floors, and a sign, "Gas meter maker" hangs above the ground floor windows.|A 19th-centu(contracted; show full)eminded of the then recent case of fraudster [[Elizabeth Canning]] and refused to have Kent or Parsons arrested (on charges of murder and conspiracy respectively).  Instead, against a backdrop of hysteria caused in part by the media's relentless reporting of the case, he ordered that Elizabeth be tested at Reverend Aldrich's house.  Meanwhile, Elizabeth was again the subject of study, in two séances held 23–24&nbsp;January.<ref>{{Harvnb|Grant|1965|pp=44–45, 51–52}}</ref>  Parsons 
was told ofaccepted the Lord Mayor's decision, and gave his assent, however hebut asked that "some persons connected with the girl might be permitted to be there, to divert her in the day-time".  This was refused, as were two similar requests, and Aldrich and Penn insisteding that they would only accept only "any person or persons, of strict character and reputation, who are housekeepers".  Parsons agreed, and Aldrich and Penn issued an's account of their negotiations with him.  CParsons clearly perturbed, Parsons the clerk, as he defended his posiactions in the ''[[The Public Ledger|Public Ledger]]'', which.  This prompted Aldrich and Penn to issue a pointed retort in ''Lloyd's Evening Post'': "We are greatly puzzled to find Mr. Parsons asserting that he hath been ''always'' willing to ''deliver up'' the child, when he refused a gentleman on Wednesday evening the 20th inst. [...] What is to be understood, by requiring security"?<!-- QM appears outside quote in source --><ref name="Grantp54">{{Harvnb|Grant|1965|p=54}}<(contracted; show full)
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[[fr:Fantôme de Cock Lane]]
[[ja:コック・レーンの幽霊]]