A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data
Ralph Thoresby. 1830. The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S., Vol. 2/2. Ed. Joseph Hunter. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. Get it:
.Feb. 1. This day the Mayor, the High Sheriff of the county, and our excellent Recorder, received the sacrament in the parish church in respect of their new offices; as also my cousin Kirshaw’s black, the first baptised negro that ever received the sacrament in these parts, that good family having taken much pains to instruct him in the Christian religion.
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