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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-century illustration of Cock Lane.   The haunting took place in the three-storey building on the right.]]
The '''Cock Lane ghost''' was a purported [[haunting]] that attracted mass public attention in 1762.  The location was an apartment in [[Cock Lane]], a short road adjacent to London's [[Smithfield, London|Smithfield]] market and a few minutes' walk from [[St Paul's Cathedral]].  The event centred around three people: William Kent, a [[usury|usurer]] from Norfolk, Richard Parsons, a parish clerk(contracted; show full)er of his school was a Dissenter, and that would in a great measure account for the Cock-lane Ghost's behaving in such an improper manner to the clergyman when he grew up."<ref>{{Harvnb|Dickens|1838–39|p=655}}</ref>  Dickens also very briefly mentions the Cock Lane ghost in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''<ref>{{Harvnb|Dickens|1859|p=1}}</ref> and ''[[Dombey and Son]]''.<ref>{{Harvnb|Dickens|1867|p=64}}</ref>

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* {{Citation | last = Addington Bruce | first = H. | title = Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28699/28699-h/28699-h.htm | publisher = The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. | location = USA | year = 1908}}
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[[Category:History of the City of London]]
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[[fr:Fantôme de Cock Lane]]
[[ja:コック・レーンの幽霊]]
[[ru:Коклэйнский призрак]]