Yorkshire Almanac Three Halifax residents appear in court charged by the Earl of Scarborough with treating Shroggs Wood as common land

1 August 1846: Three Halifax residents appear in court charged by the Earl of Scarborough with treating Shroggs Wood as common land

Leeds Mercury. 1846/08/08. Magistrates’ Office, Halifax. Leeds. Get it:

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Edward Dickenson of Halifax, was summoned at the instance of the steward of the Earl of Scarborough, for turning his cows, three in number, to pasture in the “Shrogg’s wood,” to the damage of the oak saplings. As he was proved to have been repeatedly warned of the consequences of such a practice, he was fined £2. Harriet Clapham and Mary Eccles, of Lee Bank, were charged with hanging their clothes to dry upon the young trees in the same wood, but were liberated at the request of the complainant, on paying the expenses, 11s.

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Two years later, on 23 July 1759,

I preached near Huddersfield, to the wildest congregation I have seen in Yorkshire: yet they were restrained by an unseen hand, and I believe some felt the sharpness of His word. I preached at Halifax in the evening, but the preaching-house was like an oven.

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