5 January 1726: Mr Wordsworth of New Laithes Grange (Horsforth) produces evidence of an attempted burglary and a lucky escape
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
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At Barnsley, in company with Mr Wordsworth, of New Laithes, who shewed us a bullet beat flat as a half-crown by hitting against the wall, shot at his servant in the malt-house, by some persons which were supposed to have a design to rob the house. It had gone through his hat behind.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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At Barnsley, in company with Mr. Wordsworth, of Newlaths, who shewed us a bullet beat flat as a half-crown by hitting against the wall, shot at his servant in the malt-house, by some persons which were supposed to have a design to rob the house. It had gone through his hat behind.
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- Burglary (4) ·
- Cereal (1) ·
- Firearm (15) ·
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- Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
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- Malt house (2) ·
- Malt (3) ·
- 📌New Laithes Manor House (1), 17th century or earlier, remodelled and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries ·
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