RE: "Dalesman's liturgy"

Hull - Those taken up for vagrancy, drunkeness or otherwise thrown into the local lock-up were liable (thanks to the local magistrates) for impressmernt into the Navy at times of a 'Hot Press'.

Halifax - The town of Halifax employed an early form of Guillotine ('The Halifax Gibbet'), IIRC they were fairly swift in its employment (I seem to recall reading somewhere of thieves taken on one market day and topped on the next).

Hell - I'll leave that to others.

Fom Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord Deliver me.

(On of my old bosses - a Yorkshireman himself - used to quote it as:
"From Elland, Hull and Halifax..." - Ah well, there's nowt so queer as folk.)

Walrus