Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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A woman Servant of the Red Hall wou’d bad K. Charles to have put on her Cloaths and made his Escape letting him know yt she could Conduct him out of the Garden door into a Back Alley call Lands Lane at the Dark Night where she wou’d secure him in a Friends House till a fit Opportunity to make his Escape into France, but the King did not accept of her offer putting himself into the Hands of his Traiterous Keepers not suspecting their Villany wou’d arise so far as to Cut of his Head. However he gave the Woman thanks for her Kindness and gave her his Garter Blue Silk Inscribed Honi soit qui mali pense in Letters of Gold & telling her if ever his Son Came to the Crown (if they did deprive him of office she might give it him with an Account how she came to it and he would Reward her for he said wth Tears he was not able to return her anything for her Kindness). At the Restauration she presented his Majy K. Ch. 2. with the Garter and told him the Story how she came to it. The K. asked her where she came from? She told him Leeds in Yorkshire he asked if she had a Husband? She said Yes. He ask’d of what business. She said a Bailiff. He said then he shall be the chief Bailiff in Yorkshire which he was and Built Crosby House so called in the Head-row in Leeds.

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• Brick (2) W/G ·
• Charles I (1600-49) (25), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 until his execution during the Civil War W/G ·
• Charles II (1630-85) (27), King of Scotland 1649-51, King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration until his death W/G ·
• English Civil War (1642-1651) (28), a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom W/G ·
• First English Civil War (19), August 1642-June 1646 W/G ·
• France (34) W/G ·
• Honi soit qui mal y pense (1) W/G ·
• 📌Leeds (249) W/G ·
• Metcalf, Thomas (1), Leeds wool merchant and alderman (1630-31), builder of the Red Hall W/G ·
• Order of the Garter (1) W/G ·
• 📌Red Hall, Leeds (1), large house at the junction of the Upper Head Row with Lands Lane, built 1628 by Thomas Metcalf, said to be the first brick house in Leeds, whence the name W/G ·
• Stuart Restoration (7) W/G ·
• The Headrow (1) W/G ·
• Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725) (12), Leeds-born antiquarian and its first historian, non-conformist, merchant, fellow of the Royal Society, diarist, author, common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds, museum keeper W/G ·
• Wilson, Thomas (ca. 1702-61) (1), Leeds schoolmaster and antiquarian W/G ·

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Date from A.M.W. Stirling (Stirling 1918). God, the plumber for all mankind.

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