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On 27 March 1634, John Bartendale stood on the scaffold outside Micklegate Bar, York with a noose around his neck. Bartendale was a piper, a wandering musician who had turned to crime and been convicted of a felony. It seemed his piping days were over. The hangman pulled the lever, and Bartendale dropped through theContinue reading “The Yorkshire Piper who Came Back from the Dead”