Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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After several rumours that the papists had been very pressing with the King for the manor of York to make it a seminary or school for the instructing of youth in that religion, I was informed it was granted accordingly for thirty years to come to one Mr. Lawson, a priest. I wrote upon it to my Lord Bellasis, principal commissioner of the Treasury, setting forth that I had it granted by my commission of governor of York from the late King, and confirmed by this; that it was of £60 per annum advantage to me, that it had cost me near two hundred pounds in repairs since my abode there, and I had had no allowance for it from the King, and therefore desired that it inight either be continued to me, or that his Majesty would grant me such a compensation for the want of it and the repairs as in his Majesty’s justice and wisdom I might be thought to deserve.

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• Catholic Church (57) W/G ·
• Charles II (1630-85) (27), King of Scotland 1649-51, King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration until his death W/G ·
• James II (20) W/G ·
• John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse (2) W/G ·
• King’s Manor (1) W/G ·
• Reresby, John (1634-89) (23), Thrybergh-born, politician and diarist, governor of York 1682-88, 2nd baronet W/G ·
• 📌York (165) W/G ·

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7 February 1685: Notables at York await the death of Charles II, planning to prevent anti-papists and other dissidents from disrupting the accession of James II

15 September 1679: The election at York for the Exclusion Bill Parliament is devolved to more convenient locations

21 February 1688: On Shrove-Tuesday, cock-throwing York apprentices break a Catholic window, and the militia intervenes, torturing citizens and violating their civic rights

5 October 1665: John Reresby finds that Charles II has broken a promise and made someone more generous than him sheriff of Yorkshire

17 October 1688: York on the eve of the Glorious Revolution: “an archbishopric without a bishop, a city without a lord mayor, a garrison without a soldier”

25 March 1685: The York apprentices ask John Reresby to lead their new militia troop

13 January 1686: A mob plunders the funeral of the Countess of Strafford at York Minster

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

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

24 April 1688: At Pontefract, the new Catholic and Dissenting members of the judiciary send James II, a Catholic, thanks for allowing freedom of religion, leading him to believe he has popular support

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