Some intriguing local stories about revenants were jotted down in Latin by a monk of Byland Abbey (Yorkshire) around 1400, as undoubted facts (James, 1922); one concerns a certain Robert of Killiburne...in the churchyard and held him there till the priest arrived to hear his confession and absolve him. * ...he would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.