Wakefield on "The Punishment of Death.

Hull, and came by way of Selby and Wakefield to Barnsley.

With the publication of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield in 1766 the first series of English novels came to a suitable close.

But what was their surprise when they saw the bailiff quietly inducting the cattle of Harry Wakefield into the grassy Goshen which had just been assigned to those of Robin Oig M'Combich by the proprietor himself.

He had come thither from Wakefield at the age of thirteenafter the death of his father, who was, in a double sense, the cardinal formative influence in his life.

[Munday does not confound the Pinder of Wakefield with the Bradford hero, for he expressly distinguishes between them; but he errs in giving the latter the name of George-a-Greene.]

Robin Oig's chosen friend was a young Englishman, Harry Wakefield by name, well known at every northern market, and in his way as much famed and honoured as our Highland driver of bullocks.

But since present examples are odious, we may refer to The Vicar of Wakefield for an old one.