Yorkshire Almanac John Reresby loses his sword between Barnsley and Wakefield

16 October 1685: John Reresby loses his sword between Barnsley and Wakefield

Heneage Dering. 1877. Autobiographical Memoranda. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. Dean of Ripon etc., but focussed on London etc. – nothing of interest. Get it:

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October 16.
I returned home and met the news that I should recover 500l. of the 700l. which I feared to lose by the breaking of the goldsmith.
As I rode late between Barnsley and Wakefield I lost my sword out of my belt, and not discovering it till I came to my journey’s end I was troubled at it, because it was reputed unlucky for a soldier to lose his sword. But it so happened that as I returned to Thrybergh two days after, my men found it close to the road side, though many persons travelling that way passed very near it, yet did not find it.

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Bromley seems to have been stationed at Rotherham at the time.

I haven’t read Priestly despotism rampant, (Martin 1853), but Bromley seems to have been suspended or expelled from Wesleyan Conference for extremism a dozen years later, so he his views and methods may already have been unconventional.

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