Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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Ra. Dicconson of Newe Malton, laborer, aged 60.
hath knowne Hardie Flate this fourtie yeres and more and hath muche usid to go by the same he hathe sometyme bated his horse upon the brode balke whilste he mendid his wooll packes and he saith men of Welborne wolde have comed to hyme and wolde have caried his horse to Welborne poundfolde and this deponente wolde have given theme faire wordes and so they wold let them goo And he further saith that he used to drive fishe xl yeres sence and more from Malton to Kirkham with one Thomas Danbie then the Convent cooke at Kirkham, and abouttes the said tyme he saith he se the Parson of Bulmer man then called Parson Jackson receave of Sir John Catton then Chanon of the Kitchin certain saltefishe which he carried awaie on horsebake frome Kirkham, and he saith he harde one of the Prior servauntes come to Sir John Catton in the Prior of Kirkham name then Prior Butterie for the delyvery of the saltefishe to the Parson of Bulmer man and he saithe when the fishe was delivered he asked Sir John Catton wherfore he delivered the fishe to the parson of Bulmer man and he tolde this deponent that the fishe was delivered for the tithe of a grounde called Hardie Flate lienge at Carvidale Crose accordinge to one agreament which was made betwixte Prior Butterie and the Parson of Bulmer called Parson Jackson and he saith Parson Jackson and Parson Willobie and one Robert Jackson then keper of Hynderskelf dyned with the Prior of Kirkham the said daie, and he saith one Ric. Stamper was then the Prior cooke, Thos. Danbie the Convent cooke and Robyn More the Skolyon of the kitchin, and he this deponent dwelte at that tyme with one Robt. Baker of Malton fishedriver and wooldriver

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This broad balk is presumably a portion left untouched between ploughed portions as boundary, path or waste – see e.g. this beautiful medieval ridge and furrow at Pickering. I’m guessing it’s the boundary with Welburn land on the east of the plot shown on this satellite image – but this may help clarify. Also historical mapping.

Ra.: Radulphus, Ralph?

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• Animal pound (3) W/G ·
• 📌Bulmer, North Yorkshire (3) W/G ·
• Dissolution of the monasteries (9), the set of administrative and legal processes 1536-41 by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries, seized their wealth, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions W/G ·
• Fish (10) W/G ·
• 📌Henderskelfe (2) W/G ·
• Henry VIII (1491-1547) (16), ruled 1509 until his death, initiator of the English Reformation, separating the Church of England from papal authority and introducing the theory of the divine right of kings, dissolved convents and monasteries, invested heavily in the navy W/G ·
• 📌Kirkham Priory (2), ruined Augustinian priory on the banks of the Derwent, at Kirkham, North Yorkshire, founded in the 1120s by Walter l'Espec, lord of nearby Helmsley, who also built Rievaulx, dissolved 1539 W/G ·
• Kirkham, North Yorkshire (2) W/G ·
• Long-term memory (5) W/G ·
• 📌Malton, North Yorkshire (11) W/G ·
• Ryedale (7) W/G ·
• Salted fish (1) W/G ·
• Tithe (9) W/G ·
• Welburn, Derwent (1) W/G ·
• Whitwell-on-the-Hill (1) W/G ·
• Wool (28) W/G ·
• 📌York (165) W/G ·

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This broad balk is presumably a portion left untouched between ploughed portions as boundary, path or waste – see e.g. this beautiful medieval ridge and furrow at Pickering. I’m guessing it’s the boundary with Welburn land on the east of the plot shown on this satellite image – but this may help clarify. Also historical mapping.

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25 June 1586: At a tithe tribunal, elderly ex-nuns recall hay-making at Moxby Priory before its dissolution in 1536

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29 August 1570: On arriving in Yorkshire, Archbishop Grindal declares war on bloody-minded folk-Catholicism

13 January 1536: Richard Layton, dissolver of monasteries, writes to Thomas Cromwell claiming that Yorkshire clergy use birth control

21 September 1549: Egalitarian, republican and Catholic, the leaders of the Seamer Rebellion against the Edwardian Reformation are hanged at York

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25 October 1536: God stands between Henry VIII’s army at Doncaster and a superior force of Catholic rebels from the Pilgrimage of Grace, according to a Tudor chronicler

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13 June 1635: A Puritan talks to the gardener at York of the notorious miser and swindler, Sir Arthur Ingram

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I only know about banking up potatoes, so the story of the trees is very interesting.

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