Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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After praers I went to the church wher I hard a sermon after I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read after diner I went abroad and when I was come home I dresed some sores after I hard Mr Rhode<.> read and wrought within a while after I went to see a calfe at Munckmans which had :2: great heades 4 eares and had to ether head a throtepipe besides the heades had Long heares Like brissels about the mouths such as n’other Cow hath the hinder Legges had no parting from the rumpe but grewe backward and were no Longer but from the first Ioynte also the backe bone was parted about the midest of the bicke and a rowne howle was in the midest into the bodie of the Calfe but one would haue thought that to haue Comed of some strocke it might gett in the Cowes bely after This I Came in to priuat medetation and praier

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26 August 1600: Following the Restoration, powerful local Catholics invade the Hackness (Scarborough) home of Sir Thomas Hoby, Puritan commissioner and newcomer

22 September 1465: A menu for the enthronement at Cawood Castle of George Neville as Archbishop of York

1 July 1840: The opening of the Hull and Selby Railway terminates the threat to Hull’s port from Goole, Scarborough and Bridlington

2 February 1609: A crowd-pleasing morality play at Candlemas at Gouthwaite Hall in Catholic Nidderdale lands the cordwainer-players and their patron before the Star Chamber

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

14 May 1760: Bishop Pococke finds Richmondshire’s Kirklevington shorthorns in better condition than its fish and farmers

20 September 1319: During the Anglo-Scottish wars, seasoned raiders encounter an improvised Yorkshire home guard of clergy, peasants and officials at Myton-on-Swale

11 March 1864: An inhabitant of Bacon Island survives the Great Sheffield Flood

23 January 1640: Andrew Marvell’s father drowns in the Humber at Hull

3 January 1638: On the eve of the civil war, Henry Slingsby witnesses Royalist cavalry exercising near Wetherby on Bramham Moor, scene of the defeat of the Percy Rebellion in 1408

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The final sentence is ironic given his execution in 1658.

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