HELL, HULL AND HALIFAX
OMMENTING on the remarks of Lord Halifax at the christening of a Halifax bomber, " Ebor," of 2YA, writes: "As long ago as 1678 John Ray, M.A. F.RS., wrote of the old Yorkshire tag, ‘From Hell, Hull, _ Halifax, good Lord deliver us’ " This is a part of ‘the beggars’ and vagrants’ litany. Of these three frightful things unto them, it is to be feared that they least fear the first, conceiving it the furtherest from them. Hull is terrible to them as a town of good government, where beggars meet with punitive charity, and, it is to be feared, are oftener corrected than amended. Halitax is formidable to them for the law thereot; whereby thieves taken in the very act of stealing cloth are instantly beheaded by an engine, without any future legal proceedings. Doubtless the coincidence of the initial letters of these three words helped much the setting on foot this proverb,"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 8
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156HELL, HULL AND HALIFAX New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 8
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