THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY
Sir,-In response. to the enquiry by your correspondent "Vincent County," I found this information in Percy’s Reliqgues of Ancient English Poetry. The name "Wantley" is a corrupted version of Wharncliffe lodge, which lies a mile or so from the village of Wortley, near Rotherham, in Yorkshire. The ballad is supposed to relate allegorically a lawsuit concerning titles for church land between one of the Wortley family and the parshioners of the church, That later writers should use the name is in no way surprising, but Surtees’ spelling
is correct.
A. S.
RAE
(Christchurch).
We have to ‘thank other war a cag 8 for supplying similar information,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 5
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110THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 5
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