Yorkshire Almanac 2025

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

28 November 1730: The troubles of a suicided chicken-thief at Rothwell do not end with death

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 Leeds. A boatman buried in the midst of Rothwell Haigh, and a stake drove through him. He was going to be apprehended for stealing some hens, so he leapt into the river and drowned himself.

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The editor notes another sale, presumably around this time: “Paid Guest for glazing the great window, 16s (Royston Churchwarden’s Accounts).”

Am I interpreting this correctly? The replacement of oiled cloth, paper, shutters, or even thin sheets of horn by glass deserves a better entry.

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