beechcot-on-the-wold

Updated: June 10, 2025

My father, Richard Salkeld was the youngest son of Oliver Salkeld, lord-of-the-manor of Beechcot-on-the-Wold, and he practiced in York as an attorney. Whether he did well or ill in this calling I know not, for at the early age of six years I was left an orphan.

J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher - In the Days of Drake