Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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I had an account that several gentlemen in this Riding were put out of commission of the peace, to the number of nineteen, and ten papists put in their room; that my Lord Rochester, Lord High Treasurer, was laid aside from that office, and that it was put into the hands of five commissioners, of whom two were papists.

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I had an account that several gentlemen in this Riding were put out of commission of the peace, to the number of nineteen, and ten papists put in their room; that my Lord Rochester, Lord High Treasurer, was laid aside from that office, and that it was put into the hands of five commissioners, of whom two were papists.

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• Catholic Church (57) ·
• Church of England (93) ·
• James II (20) ·
• Justice of the peace (4) ·
• Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1) ·
• Protestantism (25) ·
• Reresby, John (1634-89) (23), Thrybergh-born, politician and diarist, governor of York 1682-88, 2nd baronet ·
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• West Riding of Yorkshire (149) ·

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