Entries for 1827
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January,
April,
July,
September,
November 1827:
- 9 January 1827: Writing from Halifax, the comedian Charles Mathews longs for Leeds
- 11 April 1827: York’s medieval Company of Merchant Adventurers asks a court to prevent John Harwood, a Petergate druggist, from selling foreign goods without membership or a licence
- 26 July 1827: Amid Nonconformist protests at a new church rate, payable by all Leeds to build temples for the Church of England, a Farnley man says organs are a waste of money
- 28 September 1827: The good life at Stapleton Park (Pontefract), country house of the still unmarried and vaguely solvent horse-racer and politician Edward Petre, 33 today
- 16 November 1827: John Nicholson, “the Yorkshire Poet,” an “uncouth clownish-looking man,” appears at Bow Street charged with creating a disturbance at Drury Lane