Now! Then! Installation of a bell at St Leonard’s, Thrybergh

12 September 1687: Installation of a bell at St Leonard’s, Thrybergh

John Reresby. 1875. The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby of Thrybergh, Bart., M.P. for York, etc., 1634-1689. Ed. James J. Cartwright. London: Longmans, Green, and Company. Get it:

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The little bell which I gave the parish, being the first of five, was put up and tuned. It cost me £18.

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The little bell which I gave the parish, being the first of five, was put up and tuned. It cost me £18.

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7 March 1687: Governor John Reresby records a perjurious witch trial at the York assizes, and the absurd tale of the old woman’s guards

16 May 1687: John Reresby goes to Rotherham to receive an ancestral rent of one penny and the use of an inn room

20 October 1676: John Reresby of Thrybergh Hall (Rotherham) hears that the Duke of Norfolk is telling London that he killed a Barbadian servant by castrating him

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”

17 June 1685: In the House of Commons, John Reresby says that London deserves higher taxes because its very existence is a tax on the rest of England

2 September 1686: John Reresby describes his organisation of the York garrison

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

12 May 1687: Royal humour

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