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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)k]], [[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==

Aldrich andWith [[Lord Dartmouth]] Aldrich began to draw together the people who would be involved in his investigation.  They chose the matron of a local [[Lying-in Hospital|lying-in hospital]] as principal [[lady-in-waiting]], the critic and controversialist Bishop [[John Douglas (bishop)|John Douglas]] and Doctor George Macaulay.  A Captain Wilkinson was also included on the committee; he had attended one séance, armed with a pistol and stick—the former for shooting the source of the knocking, and the latter for making his escape (the ghost had (contracted; show full)
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[[fr:Fantôme de Cock Lane]]
[[ja:コック・レーンの幽霊]]