Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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1 August, 19 Charles II.—Coroner’s Inquisition-post-mortem taken at St. Andrew’s Holborn, on view of the body of Thomas Danby esq. there lying dead: with verdict that, about eleven o’clock of the night of the last day of July last past, at the said parish, William Berridge, John Ogle and Thomas Jenney, all three late of the said parish gentlemen, assaulted the aforesaid Thomas Danby esq., and that William Berridge gave him with a sword a mortal wound on his throat, of which wound he then and there died, being thus killed and murdered by the said William Berridge, John Ogle and Thomas Jenney.—Also, a true bill against the same three gentlemen for thus murdering Thomas Danby esq. The indictment exhibits no clerical minutes touching arraignment or consequences thereof. G. D. R., 9 Oct., 19 Charles II.

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