Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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Another day I stay at home on Saturday June 26 I went to Mr Smiths at Gildersam, and preached at Morley the day after, upon a solemn call, when I was in the pulpit singing a psalm comes up Mr Broadhead vicar of Batley passing among the crowd up the alley, and got with much ado to the clerk, bade him tell Mr Heywood to come down and let him have his own pulpit, and then hasted away he left his gown at a house, took horse and went to Batley, told Justice Copley what a multitude of people there was at Morley hearing a Nonconformist, he took no notice of it, bade let us alone, and so through God’s mercy we enjoyed the day quietly, and it was a good day blessed be God, the day after I visited Mr Marshal, lodged at Hoome hall, preached at Healy, so came home on Thursday night.

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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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Which church does Heywood occupy? Which Healey does he visit? Is the JP Christopher Copley?

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• 📌Batley (6) W/G ·
• Broadhead, Josiah (ca. 1639-85) (1), Cheshire-born vicar of Elland (1663-67) and Batley (1667 until his death) W/G ·
• Church of England (94) W/G ·
• Five Mile Act 1665 (2) W/G ·
• Gildersome (2) W/G ·
• Healey, Kirklees (1) W/G ·
• Healey, Ossett (1) W/G ·
• Heywood, Oliver (1630-1702) (34), Bolton-born nonconformist minister and diarist, active in the West Riding, resident at Northowram, ejected for his beliefs W/G ·
• Horse (72) W/G ·
• 📌Morley, West Yorkshire (5), market town and civil parish 5 miles south-west of Leeds, built on seven hills W/G ·
• Nonconformism (47) W/G ·
• Presbyterianism (20) W/G ·
• Psalms (13) W/G ·
• West Riding of Yorkshire (150) W/G ·

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14 March 1670: The itinerant Presbyterian, Oliver Heywood, is arrested for preaching in a private house at Little Woodhouse, Leeds

11 December 1680: The Great Comet is seen in Halifax as a natural event, in London – amid Popish Plot hysteria – as a portent

27 September 1680: The Rev Oliver Heywood manifests disregard for Calvinist views on fasting, for his horses, and for his wife

23 August 1681: John Heywood’s is ordained at John Hey’s in Craven

23 October 1679: Presbyterian emotion at Gisburn, Ribble Valley (West Riding)

2 January 1673: Despite Charles II’s Declaration of Indulgence, Presbyterians Oliver Heywood and Christopher Richardson are detained while preaching at Lascelles Hall (Kirkburton)

5 February 1691: Approaching 60, Oliver Heywood contemplates his place in the cosmos

2 April 1683: A domestic dispute at the Heywoods’ in Northowram (Halifax)

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

3 January 1638: On the eve of the civil war, Henry Slingsby witnesses Royalist cavalry exercising near Wetherby on Bramham Moor, scene of the defeat of the Percy Rebellion in 1408

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The final sentence is ironic given his execution in 1658.

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