mompessons

Updated: May 12, 2025

But once the little Mompessons learned, or suspected, that their father associated the noises with the vagrant drummer, a wide vista of enjoyment would open before their mischief-loving minds.

H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce - Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Thereafter he was never again heard of in Wiltshire or in the pages of history, and with his disappearance came an end to the knockings, the corpse candles, and all the other uncanny phenomena that had made life a ceaseless nightmare for the Mompessons.

H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce - Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Here is a Decorated church with good details and a remarkable tomb-slab bearing an incised figure of an unknown huntsman, also a fine altar tomb of the Mompessons. The rector here in the days of the Parliament was ejected in the depth of winter with his wife and eleven children, suffering great hardship before succour reached them. Little Langford is across the stream in an exquisite situation.

Edric Holmes - Wanderings in Wessex: An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter