Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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My sister Waide, having been out of health a good while, and by reason of a jaundice reduced to a very great weakness, and having lost her stomach, it pleased God that she died, at New Grange [Headingley], on Saturday, 26th May, about noon, or near one of clock of the same day. She was sensible to the last moment, and died very penitently, and I was there, and my mother, and had been most of that week, and also several times before, and her funeral was appointed to be at Calverley on the Wednesday following. At which time she was brought in a hearse upon my wheels to Calverley church, and interred in my father’s quire, this being 30 May same, and Mr. Killingbeck, vicar of Leeds, preached a sermon (being by her direction), and took his text out of first book of Kings, chapter. 19, verse 4, about the prophet Elijah requesting for himself that he might die; which he handled very gravely. The gentlemen at the funeral had gloves and scarves, which were above 60, and all the rest gloves, which perhaps might be about 70 or 80, besides gentlemen’s men, etc. And there was £5 given out to be distributed to the poor, by Mr. Graham and S.H., to have been 3d. a piece, but they finding them very numerous, gave them but 2d. a piece, and in so doing distributed all that, and near 10s. more. So that there were towards 700 poor persons that had dole.

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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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My sister Waide, having been out of health a good while, and by reason of a jaundice reduced to a very great weakness, and having lost her stomach, it pleased God that she died, at New Grange [Headingley], on Saturday, 26th May, about noon, or near one of clock of the same day. She was sensible to the last moment, and died very penitently, and I was there, and my mother, and had been most of that week, and also several times before, and her funeral was appointed to be at Calverley on the Wednesday following. At which time she was brought in a hearse upon my wheels to Calverley church, and interred in my father’s quire, this being 30 May same, and Mr. Killingbeck, vicar of Leeds, preached a sermon (being by her direction), and took his text out of first book of Kings, chapter. 19, verse 4, about the prophet Elijah requesting for himself that he might die; which he handled very gravely. The gentlemen at the funeral had gloves and scarves, which were above 60, and all the rest gloves, which perhaps might be about 70 or 80, besides gentlemen’s men, etc. And there was £5 given out to be distributed to the poor, by Mr. Graham and S.H., to have been 3d. a piece, but they finding them very numerous, gave them but 2d. a piece, and in so doing distributed all that, and near 10s. more. So that there were towards 700 poor persons that had dole.

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• Calverley, Walter (1670-1749) (4), 1st Baronet, diarist ·
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• Funeral (25) ·
• 📌Headingley (14) ·
• Killingbeck, John (1649-1716) (1), Vicar of Leeds 1690 until his death ·

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