Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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In my journey into Westmorland upon Wednesday April 5, 1676, having baited at Ingleton about a mile beyond in a stony lane, my horse blundered amongst the stones, and came down and I under him sideways, but was not hurt. I rose up, went forward, lapped the bridle fast about my hand to hold him fast, but by that time I had rid another mile down a little hill. In a very stony lane he stumbled again, fell on his nose, kicked me clean over his neck. There I lay, got up, was not hurt, blessed be the keeper of Israel. Another fall I had in that journey by a stone lying hollow, and my horse falling in Northowram township. As I went from home, I was discouraged about my old horse, yet god wonderfully preserved me from hurt, he kept all my bones – not one of them is broken – let god alone have all the glory in his gracious providence, not my prudence in self-preservation.

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• 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 ·
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12 February 1677: Heavy snow leaves Oliver Heywood unsure whether to cross the Pennines into Lancashire

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

11 February 1674: A successful national fast

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

2 March 1665: A sighting of the northern lights at Northowram (Halifax) recalls the eve of the civil war

10 March 1665: Blizzards and Dutch attacks prolong Restoration-induced shortages of fodder and coal at Northowram (Halifax)

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If a chauldron is 36 bushels, a bushel is 8 gallons, and a gallon of coal weighs 40 pounds, then coal was slightly less than £1/tonne. In 2021 a tonne was retailing at roughly £420, almost three times as much after inflation. Fortunately we have gas. No, wait.

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