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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)ldrich 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}}</ref>


TBy this point the story had by now spread across London, and by the middle of January the crowds gathered outside the property were such that Cock Lane was rendered impassable.  Parsons charged visitors an entrance fee to "talk" with the Gghost, which, it was reported, failed to disappoint.<ref>{{Harvnb|MacKay|1852|p=232}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Westwood|Simpson|2005|pp=463–464}}</ref>  The ''[[St. James's Chronicle]]'' and the ''[[London Chronicle]]'' each published detailed accounts of the phenomenon, the latter the more sceptical thanof the formertwo.<ref name="Benedictp172"/>  Elizabeth was taken on 26&nbsp;January to the house of Jane Armstrong, and slept there in a hammock.  When tThe noises continued, the Ghost's supporters had their resolved strengthened.  Thestrengthening the resolve of its supporters, while the press's ceaseless reporting of the case continued;.  [[Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford]], announced that he was to visit the haunting on 30&nbsp;January, along with the [[Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany|Duke of York]], [[Lady Northumberland]], [[Lady Mary Coke]], and [[Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford|Lord Hertford]].  After struggling through the throngs of interested visitors, they were ultimately disappointed; the ''[[Public Advertiser]]'' observed that "the noise is now generally deferred till seven in the morning, it being necessary to vary the time, that the imposition may be the better carried on".<ref>{{Harvnb|Grant|1965|pp=55–56}}</ref>

==Exposure==
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[[Category:Ghosts]]
[[Category:Hoaxes in the United Kingdom]]

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