Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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A son of Mr [Benjamin] Sandall’s, vicar of Coverley, was crushed to death under the church door on Lord’s day at night November 30, 1668, the door being lifted off the hinges by some ringers.

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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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Samuel Margerison says there were two Ephraim Sandalls, “both of whom died young.” Benjamin Sandall was apparently from Idle and appointed by Charles II, and he died or was sacked in 1688 (Margerison 1880).

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Samuel Margerison says there were two Ephraim Sandalls, “both of whom died young.” Benjamin Sandall was apparently from Idle and appointed by Charles II, and he died or was sacked in 1688 (Margerison 1880).

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5 August 1605: Debauched and ruined, Walter Calverley is crushed to death today at York for the murder of two sons at Calverley Hall (Bradford), but is revived by 1830s schoolboy ghost-raisers as the Rev. Samuel Redhead (age ca. 55)

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17 November 1812: A doggerel inscription at St. George’s, Doncaster, commemorates two sons of ringing master Robert Smith, one of whom died by his father’s bells

18 June 1664: Jane Thompson of Craven, “a swinish drunkard,” dies of a barely-treated compound fracture

7 September 1874: A bell-ringing contest at All Saints Church, Wath upon Dearne prompts an outraged editorial in the trade journal

28 March 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing

18 July 1784: Wesley finds children “restrained from open sin” at one of the first Sunday schools, at Bingley

20 January 1536: Thomas Cromwell’s dissolvers of monasteries, Richard Layton and Thomas Legh, report allegations of whoring and theft by William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains

6 January 1687: Perhaps violating the discriminatory Test Acts, James II replaces Protestant justices of the peace by Catholics in the West Riding

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