Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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No woman shall pay custom in our borough for selling beer.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Le Patourel suggests 12 November as the most likely candidate for “the morrow of the feast of the Blessed Martin.”

Confusingly, James Wardell has “No woman shall pay toll in our borough who is to be sold for slavery” (Wardell 1846), but Le Patourel thinks he has relied on Whitaker (Whitaker 1816), who himself regards his source as unreliable. LP’s reconstruction of the Latin text is “Nulla femina dabit consuetudinem in burgo nostro pro ceruisia uendenda.”

I hope Clifford Lackey’s first comment is true:

In medieval times women were evidently the brewers and retailers; they are often mentioned specifically in beer regulations.

Tetleys have marked the connection of the Paynel family with the Leeds area by naming the banqueting hall in their Lawnswood Arms, Otley Road, “The Paynel Suite.” The Paynels owned large areas of land including that on which the Lawnswood Arms tsands. Ralph Paynel held the tenancy of the Manor of Leeds from Ilbert de Lacey, one of William the Conqueror’s vassals.

(Lackey 1985)

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• Alcohol (drug) (62) W/G ·
• Beer (36) W/G ·
• City of Leeds (3) W/G ·
• Feminism (6) W/G ·
• John Le Patourel (1) W/G ·
• Lawnswood (1) W/G ·
• 📌Leeds (249) W/G ·
• Norman Conquest (6) W/G ·
• Paynel/Paganel, Maurice (1), grantor of Leeds's 1207 borough charter, giving burgesses and their heirs freedom and free burgage and their tofts and with each toft half an acre to cultivate W/G ·
• Paynel/Paganel, Ralph (1), 11th-century Norman landowner, partisan of William II, sheriff of Yorkshire W/G ·
• Pub (20) W/G ·
• St. Martin’s Day (3) W/G ·
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• William the Conqueror (5) W/G ·
• Women’s rights (4) W/G ·

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Le Patourel suggests 12 November as the most likely candidate for “the morrow of the feast of the Blessed Martin.”

Confusingly, James Wardell has “No woman shall pay toll in our borough who is to be sold for slavery” (Wardell 1846), but Le Patourel thinks he has relied on Whitaker (Whitaker 1816), who himself regards his source as unreliable. LP’s reconstruction of the Latin text is “Nulla femina dabit consuetudinem in burgo nostro pro ceruisia uendenda.”

I hope Clifford Lackey’s first comment is true:

In medieval times women were evidently the brewers and retailers; they are often mentioned specifically in beer regulations.

Tetleys have marked the connection of the Paynel family with the Leeds area by naming the banqueting hall in their Lawnswood Arms, Otley Road, “The Paynel Suite.” The Paynels owned large areas of land including that on which the Lawnswood Arms tsands. Ralph Paynel held the tenancy of the Manor of Leeds from Ilbert de Lacey, one of William the Conqueror’s vassals.

(Lackey 1985)

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28 April 1843: Thomas Hardwick announces the sale by auction at the Star and Garter of the Kirkstall Brewery, following the death in bankruptcy of Thomas Walker

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It sounds like Thomas Walker was declared bankrupt in March 1843 and was dead before April was out, but I know neither when he died nor how. Further sales of ric-à-brac and equipment followed in November. Here‘s Historic England’s listing for the Kirkstall Brewery. A summary of its history.

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