Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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And first of all beseeching God my heavenly Father to have mercy on my sinful soul, and the same into His favour to receive, I commend my body to the earth, desiring that the same may be decently covered with earth without outward pomp or great congregating of people, but if my executor be mindful to carry the same to the common sepulture at Peniston, if I shall die within the parish, or to any other common burying-place, I leave to his discretion, only as I have lived a stranger and pilgrim in the world, so I shall desire that no more may be invited to attend my corpse to the grave then may be thought necessary to carry the beare [bier] without too much burden, and in lieu of vain pomp and frivolous expenses so to be made I do hereby give to the poor indigent people of this town of Thurleston, where I now live, the sum of twenty pounds to be disposed at the discretion of my executor within one month after my death.

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• Bier (1) W/G ·
• English Civil War (1642-1651) (27), 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 ·
• Eyre, Adam (1614-61) (3), served in the army in the Civil War under Fairfax, lived at Hazlehead Hall, husband of Susannah Eyre W/G ·
• Funeral (25) W/G ·
• 📌Penistone (8), market town and parish in South Yorkshire/the West Riding west of Barnsley W/G ·
• Thurlstone (2) W/G ·
• West Riding of Yorkshire (150) W/G ·
• Will and testament (12) W/G ·

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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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A local historian repeats Clarendon’s account with additional detail (Wheater 1865), John Oldmixon calls it “as risible as affectation and insincerity can make it” (Oldmixon 1730), Henry Slingsby doesn’t mention this detail in his journal (Slingsby 1836).

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