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Mary Fitton has apparently accompanied people walking down the road to the Harrington Arms a few times and has disappeared when they reached their destination.
My encounter with the Fittons is a bit different and at the time, scared me silly.
My mother and I were driving about one autumn evening and we went down the road towards Gawsworth Hall. On turning left into this road, I was overcome with a feeling of dread and started screaming at my mum to turn the car around and go back. There was nowhere safe to turn around and she carried on driving down the road. On getting closer to the New Hall, on the left, I 'saw' a horse drawn carriage come out of the first driveway and turn right. It was going to go right past us. It was being driven by a team of four horses, had two men driving them. I then was seeing inside the carriage. There was an older woman who was quite stern and came across as being angry at the other younger woman who was crying into a handkerchief. The stern woman was wearing a bottle green gown and the younger sobbing woman was wearing a red silk gown although there was none of the fancy ruffs and heavy beadwork on the gowns. Maybe they were wearing less fancy travelling gowns. The stern woman told the younger woman, "You've brought this on yourself" in a very annoyed manner. I got the impression she was angry at her because the younger woman was sobbing because she had been caught having an affair with someone her mother and father greatly disapproved of and was being sent away until the matter was resolved. I will never know because the carriage and its occupants disappeared as fast as they appeared.
I believe the young woman was Mary Fitton. The dress fashion and the fact the Mary was sent home from Elizabeth I's court in disgrace after becoming pregnant by the Earl of Pembroke. Maybe the stables were kept there, across the road from the Tudor hall.