Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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This night I whipped Jane for her foolishness, as yesterday I had done for her slothfulness. And hence am I induced to bewail my sinful life, for my failings in the presence of God Almighty are questionless greater than hers are to me. Wherefore, unless thou, my most merciful God, be merciful unto me, what shall become of me?

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Perhaps Eyre derived sexual pleasure from this, and perhaps the apology contained in his New Year’s resolution ten months before (see comments) was related to it.

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Oct. 9. This night I whipped Jane for her foolishness as yesterday I had done for her slothfulness; and hence am I induced to bewail my sinful life for my failings in the presence of God Almighty are questionless greater than hers are to mee; wherefore unless Thou, my most merciful God, be merciful unto me what shall become of me?

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• Corporal punishment (8) ·
• Eyre, Adam (1614-61) (3), served in the army in the Civil War under Fairfax, lived at Hazlehead Hall, husband of Susannah Eyre ·
• Flagellation (6) ·
• 📌Hazlehead Hall (3), home in the 17th century to Adam Eyre ·
• 📌Hazlehead (3), hamlet mid-way between Millhouse Green and Carlecotes ·
• Hypocrisy (3) ·
• New Year’s resolution (2) ·
• Puritans (15) ·
• Sexual sadism disorder (1) ·
• West Riding of Yorkshire (150) ·

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