Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Suppressed: Mrs Trollope’s Vicar of Wrexhill, on the ground of its appearing to be indecent and of an immoral tendency.

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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

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4th June, 1838. Suppressed: Mrs. Trollope’s ‘Vicar of Wrexhill,’ on the ground of its appearing to be indecent and of an immoral tendency.

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