The Project Gutenberg eBook of The life of John Metcalf, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough · The life of John Metcalf, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough / with ... anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card-playing, &c., some particulars relative to the expedition against the rebels in 1745 ...; and also a succinct account of his various contracts for making roads, erecting bridges ... in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire ...