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Entries for 1829

There is material for February, March, July, September 1829:

1 February 1829: Jonathan Martin’s attempt to burn down York Minster is frustrated by a frolicsome chorister
5 March 1829: Henry Burton of Hotham tells a rowdy public meeting at Beverley to petition parliament against Catholic emancipation and preserve “the Protestant constitution”
2 July 1829: An elderly postman and a one-legged Waterloo veteran set out in ironed clogs to walk from Hebden Bridge to Heptonstall during a thunderstorm
4 July 1829: The first London buses commence service from the Yorkshire Stingo, New Road to Bank
11 July 1829: A Leeds Mercury subscriber asks why Christians do not seek to refute the claims of the Rev. Robert Taylor and Richard Carlile’s “infidel home missionary tour”
22 September 1829: John Broughall, an elderly Jewish pedlar, complains to Sheffield magistrates that he was ejected from the Tontine Inn (Haymarket) for running a shop inside