Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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Henry Bamford of Deaf Mills aged 94, his wife aged 104 were both carding out of doors June 24, 1679.

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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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• Carding (3) 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 ·
• Longevity claims (1) W/G ·
• Nonconformism (47) W/G ·
• Presbyterianism (20) W/G ·
• Protestantism (25) W/G ·
• Wool (28) W/G ·

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7 April 1687: James II’s declaration of freedom of conscience arrives in Yorkshire, but fails in its alleged underlying intention – to drive people into the arms of the Catholic church

29 November 1673: A verse warns Charles II against his brother James, six days after the latter’s marriage to an Italian Catholic

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I take this to be a curious prayer. The context is the 1673 Test Act and suspicion that James was a Catholic – he had married an Italian Catholic, Mary of Modena, six days previously, on 23 November. Is James the “false brother” AND “friend”, or is someone else implicated?

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