Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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LXVIII. THOMAS BAYNES, GEN. FOR SCANDALOUS BEHAVIOUR.
July 17, 1654. At York assize, before Hugh Wyndham, one of the justices of assize. Thomas Baynes,* of Twisleton, gentleman, being sequestred for his delinquency and recusancy by the Comm’s at York, did upon the 26th of Feb. 1652, by wryteing and words say that the said Comms did basely and falsely and indirectly proceed against him in sequestring his estate, and that they had dealt knaveishly and rogueishly with him. That, upon the 27th of Feb. 1652, beeing the Lord’s Day, hee did most falsly and unjustly read a scandallous paper in Ingleton church before the congregacion, full of malityous invectives against the said Comms, and prohibiteing any persons, at their perills, for medleing with or giveing assistance to the agents of the said Comm in the sequestracion of his estate. That, on the 10th of Nov”, 1653, he did say that Alderman Geldart, the present Lord Mayor of Yorke, was the basest fellowe that ever trode upon a shooe of leather, and that hee never exchanged tenn words with a baser rogue in his life, and that the Coms for Sequestracions weere all of them caterpillers, and that there was a punishment reserved for such, and that the country all thereabouts weer satisfyed that they weere all knaves and rogues.
* Mr. Baynes may well be pardoned. The word “caterpillars” was a very appropriate term to apply to the sequestrators, for they did eat up many an honest gentleman’s estate.

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• Assizes (24) W/G ·
• Caterpillar (2) W/G ·
• Committee for Compounding with Delinquents (1), committee set up by Parliament in 1643, near the start of the English Civil War, which allowed Royalists whose estates had been sequestrated to compound for their estates - pay a fine and recover their estates - if they pledged not to take up arms against Parliament again W/G ·
• Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) (7), Huntingdon-born general and head of state 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 ·
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