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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"John
le
Poer,
Lord
Decies,
was
the
eldest
son
of
Richard,
Earl
of
Tyrone,
and
of
Lady
Dorothy
Annesley,
daughter
of
Arthur,
Earl
of
Anglesey.
He
was
born
1665,
succeeded
his
father
1690,
and
died
14th
October,
1693.
He
became
Lord
Tyrone
at
his
father's
death,
and
is
the
'ghost'
of
the
story.
"Nicola
Sophie
Hamilton
was
the
second
and
youngest
daughter
and
co-
heiress
of
Hugh,
Lord
Glenawley,
who
was
also
Baron
Lunge
in
Sweden.
Being
a
zealous
Royalist,
he
had,
together
with
his
father,
migrated
to
that
country
in
1643,
and
returned
from
it
at
the
Restoration.
He
was
of
a
good
old
family,
and
held
considerable
landed
property
in
the
county
Tyrone,
near
Ballygawley.
He
died
there
in
1679.
His
eldest
daughter
and
co-heiress,
Arabella
Susanna,
married,
in
1683,
Sir
John
Macgill,
of
Gill
Hall,
in
the
county
Down.
"Nicola
S.
(the
second
daughter)
was
born
in
1666,
and
married
Sir
Tristram
Beresford
in
1687.
Between
that
and
1693
two
daughters
were
born,
but
no
son
to
inherit
the
ample
landed
estates
of
his
father,
who
most
anxiously
wished
and
hoped
for
an
heir.
It
was
under
these
circumstances,
and
at
this
period,
that
the
manuscripts
state
that
Lord
Tyrone
made
his
appearance
after
death;
and
all
the
versions
of
the
story,
without
variation,
attribute
the
same
cause
and
reason,
viz.,
a
solemn
promise
mutually
interchanged
in
early
life
between
John
le
Poer,
then
Lord
Decies,
afterwards
Lord
Tyrone,
and
Nicola
S.
Hamilton,
that
whichever
of
the
two
died
the
first,
should,
if
permitted,
appear
to
the
survivor
for
the
object
of
declaring
the
approval
or
rejection
by
the
Deity
of
the
revealed
religion
as
generally
acknowledged:
of
which
the
departed
one
must
be
fully
cognisant,
but
of
which
they
both
had
in
their
youth
entertained
unfortunate
doubts.
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