Oliver Heywood. 1883. The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A., 1630-1702, Vol. 3/4. Ed. J. Horsfall Turner. Bingley: T. Harrison.
Get it: All sources.- 8 August 1514: Sir Thomas Wortley’s death inaugurates the memorial he has built for himself at Wharncliffe
- 18 June 1664: Jane Thompson of Craven, “a swinish drunkard,” dies of a barely-treated compound fracture
- 1 November 1664: News of the Tadcaster boy-giant
- 2 March 1665: A sighting of the northern lights at Northowram (Halifax) recalls the eve of the civil war
- 10 March 1665: Blizzards and Dutch attacks prolong Restoration-induced shortages of fodder and coal at Northowram (Halifax)
- 21 July 1666: A white ghost army is seen by the Don near Sheffield
- 11 April 1667: A hubristic Sam Mitchell impersonates a gypsy in a Halifax pub, and nemesis follows
- 30 November 1668: A Calverley boy dies in his father’s church, a victim of the bell-ringers
- 2 January 1673: Despite Charles II’s Declaration of Indulgence, Presbyterians Oliver Heywood and Christopher Richardson are detained while preaching at Lascelles Hall (Kirkburton)
- 24 February 1673: Oliver Heywood regrets impulsively baptising the child of an irresponsible Quaker father
- 14 August 1673: A retired coal miner, unable to live from carding wool, decides to return to a pit at Royds Hall (Bradford)
- 27 August 1673: John Holden fatally mugs his wife at Lightcliffe (Calderdale), but witnesses are fearful, and the jury sees only manslaughter
- 29 November 1673: A verse warns Charles II against his brother James, six days after the latter’s marriage to an Italian Catholic
- 10 December 1673: The Rev. Heywood prays for more death and destruction in the new year
- 11 February 1674: A successful national fast
- 5 April 1674: An anonymous message to a preacher
- 11 May 1674: A poor man at Ossett (Wakefield) punishes his child for taking a piece of bread
- 23 June 1674: Oliver Heywood attends the funeral of Martha Stansfield and her baby
- 17 December 1674: Michael Gilburn, a Halifax lawyer, terminates a drunken weekend in style
- 10 January 1675: George Aislabie, profiteering registrar of the York ecclesiastical court and assiduous duellist, challenges the wrong man
- 5 April 1676: The Lord saves a Presbyterian from his horse in Craven
- 12 February 1677: Heavy snow leaves Oliver Heywood unsure whether to cross the Pennines into Lancashire
- 2 April 1683: A domestic dispute at the Heywoods’ in Northowram (Halifax)
- 5 February 1691: Approaching 60, Oliver Heywood contemplates his place in the cosmos
- 28 March 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing
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