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Updated: May 11, 2025
He also added a priest's house. And Father Ingleman said mass every Sunday, while waiting for another priest to be appointed to the charge. "This rebuilding and remodelling amused the miserable master of the manor, during the latter part of the summer and the autumn following his wife's death. But with the coming of the winter, returned all his gloom and horror.
Dubarry took an aged Catholic priest to share his home. Under the influence of Father Ingleman, Philip Dubarry became a penitent and a devotee. At that time this church was but a rude chapel, erected over the old family vault. But now, by the advice of the old priest, Mr. Dubarry rebuilt and enlarged the chapel, for the accommodation of all the Catholics in the neighborhood.
It was said that the haunted master of the house, in a fit of desperation, actually set it on fire, with the purpose of burning out the ghost. At all events, it seems certain that he would permit nothing to be done to stop the flames. "The house was burned to the ground. The houseless master took refuge with Father Ingleman, in the priest's dwelling by the church.
But there also the spectre followed him, nor could all the exorcisms of Father Ingleman with 'candle, bell, and book, avail to lay the disturbed spirit. "Philip Dubarry, half a maniac by this time, sent away the priest, pulled down the priest's house, and took up his abode in the body of the church itself, which was thenceforward deserted by all others.
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