The old people tell the story of a certain James Tankerlay,
one-time rector of Kereby, who was buried by the chapter-house
at Byland. His spirit began to wander at night as far as Kereby,
and one evening he
gouged out the eye of his concubine who still lived there. It is
said that the abbot and chapter had his body in its coffin dug
out of the grave and
that they ordered Roger Wayneman to convey it to Gormyre. When
he was about to throw the coffin into the water, the oxen drawing
his wagon panicked and
were almost drowned with fear.
[Medieval Ghost Stories: an Anthology
of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies, ed. A. Joynes (Woodbridge,
2001), p. 123]