Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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The citizens of York being now brought over, were generally kind to me, and promised to be for my election. The city wanting their head in civil matters, made their application to me in that capacity also. There were about that time three extraordinary things which might properly be said of York: that it was an archbishopric without a bishop, a city without a Lord Mayor, and a garrison without a soldier. But these were soon after all supplied. The old charter of all was restored to the city and the old Lord Mayor, as it stood upon the delivery of the first and the ancient charter, without one papist in it. The Bishop of Exeter, who fled from thence upon the landing of the Prince of Orange, was made Archbishop of York; and I had one company of foot sent to continue, as I said before.

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I’m not clear as to the role of Reresby in the forfeiture of York’s charter under James II.

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I’m not clear as to the role of Reresby in the forfeiture of York’s charter under James II.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

24 June 1687: John Reresby, governor of York, protests James II’s plans to turn his residence into a Catholic school

27 March 1690: At the première of an ode celebrating the “chief agents” of the Glorious Revolution – “the city and county of York” – London-based Yorkshiremen hear of domestic decline since the days of the Roman emperor Constantine

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

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