Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

Excerpt

On Tuesday last, betwixt the hours of five and six, as one Craven, a cloth maker, who lives at Horbury, was returning from Leeds market, he was stopped on Rothwell Hague by two men on horseback, one of which brandishing a sword before his face and demanding his money, took from him two guineas in gold and two shillings and sixpence in silver. About half an hour after, John Briggs, a gardener in Wakefield, was attacked upon the same common by the above two persons, etc.; and about seven o’clock on the same evening, Mr Pyeman, a tanner at Lofthouse, and Cheeseborough, a shoemaker of Oswald [Ouzelwell] Green, were attacked by the same two persons, who took from Mr Pyeman his watch and a sum of money, and from the shoemaker five shillings in silver. The day following, Jacques Saggarson, a French fencing master, was taken up on suspicion, and committed to York Castle by __ Smith, Esq. [Result?]

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

Comment

Comment

Saggarson is not a very French name – does “French fencing master” mean someone who taught fencing in the French style?

Thoresby is my source for Oswald Green < Ouzelwell Green (Thoresby 1830).

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Original

“On Thursday se’nnight was broke open the house of Samuel Waddington, an honest and industrious farmer in Bramhope, near Otley, and from thence was taken a box, the contents whereof were of £300 value.”
“On Tuesday last, betwixt the hours of five and six, as one Craven, a cloth maker, who lives at Horbury, was returning from Leedes market, he was stopp’d on Rothwell-Hague by two men on horseback, one of which brandishing a sword before his face and demanding his money, took from him two guineas in gold and two shillings and sixpence in silver.”
“About half an hour after, Jno. Briggs, a gardener in Wakefield, was attacked upon the same common by the above two persons, &c.; and about seven o’clock on the same evening, Mr. Pyeman, a tanner at Lofthouse, and Cheeseborough, a shoemaker of Oswald Green, were attacked by the same two persons, who took from Mr. Pyeman his watch and a sum of money, and from the shoemaker five shillings in silver.”
“The day following, Jaques Saggarson, a French fencing master, was taken up on suspicion, and committed to York Castle by __. Smith, Esq.”

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• Carlton, Rothwell (1) ·
• France (31) ·
• Highwayman (4) ·
• Horbury (1) ·
• Leeds Intelligencer (4), one of the first regional newspapers in the country, founded 1754, renamed the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer in 1866, Yorkshire Post in 1883; conservative, anti-Catholic, anti-Chartist ·
• 📌Leeds (235) ·
• Lofthouse, West Yorkshire (2) ·
• Marketplace (8) ·
• Robbery (3) ·
• 📌Rothwell Haigh (1) ·
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