Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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This morn my wife began after her old manner to brawl and revile me for wishing her only to wear such apparel as was decent and comely and accused me of treading on her sore foot with curses and oaths; which to my knowledge I touched not, nevertheless she continued in that ecstasy till noon.

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Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

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Via Arthur Ponsonby, who has more excerpts, including this New Year’s resolution seven months later, which indicates that his wife, if guilty of anything, was not the only party at fault:

January 1. This morn I used some words of persuasion to my wife to forbear to tell me of what is past and promised her to become a good husband to her for ye time to come and she promised me likewise she would do what I wished her in anything save in setting her hand to papers; and I promised her never to wish her thereunto (Ponsonby 1923).

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This morn my wife began after her old manner to brawl and revile me for wishing her only to wear such apparel as was decent and comely and accused me of treading on her sore foot with curses and oaths; which to my knowledge I touched not, nevertheless she continued in that ecstasy till noon.

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• Clothing (3) ·
• Eyre, Adam (1614-61) (3), served in the army in the Civil War under Fairfax, lived at Hazlehead Hall, husband of Susannah Eyre ·
• Eyre, Susannah (?-1668) (2), daughter of Godfrey Mathewman of Ellentree Head, lived at Hazlehead Hall, wife of Adam Eyre ·
• First English Civil War (18), August 1642-June 1646 ·
• 📌Hazlehead Hall (3), home in the 17th century to Adam Eyre ·
• 📌Hazlehead (3), hamlet mid-way between Millhouse Green and Carlecotes ·
• Modesty (1) ·
• New Year’s resolution (2) ·
• Puritans (15) ·
• Roundhead (20) ·
• West Riding of Yorkshire (147) ·

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