John Reresby. 1875. The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby of Thrybergh, Bart., M.P. for York, etc., 1634-1689. Ed. James J. Cartwright. London: Longmans, Green, and Company.
Get it: All sources.- 15 September 1679: The election at York for the Exclusion Bill Parliament is dissolved to more convenient locations
- 28 October 1683: York’s governor fails to provoke a duel with someone who borrowed his cushion at the minster
- 15 January 1685: John Reresby, governor of York, refuses to help exempt Sheffield cutlers from the hearth tax because of insufficient rewards for past favours
- 7 February 1685: Notables at York await the death of Charles II, planning to prevent anti-papists and other dissidents from disrupting the accession of James II
- 25 March 1685: The York apprentices ask John Reresby to lead their new militia troop
- 17 June 1685: In the House of Commons, John Reresby says that London deserves higher taxes because its very existence is a tax on the rest of England
- 13 January 1686: A mob plunders the funeral of the Countess of Strafford at York Minster
- 25 January 1686: John Reresby is disgusted to learn that his brother Jervase has married a (relatively) poor, common Spaniard and emigrated
- 2 September 1686: John Reresby describes his organisation of the York garrison
- 6 January 1687: Perhaps violating the discriminatory Test Acts, James II replaces Protestant justices of the peace by Catholics in the West Riding
- 7 March 1687: Governor John Reresby records a perjurious witch trial at the York assizes, and the absurd tale of the old woman’s guards
- 7 April 1687: James II’s declaration of freedom of conscience arrives in Yorkshire, but fails in its alleged underlying intention – to drive people into the arms of the Catholic church
- 12 May 1687: Royal humour
- 16 May 1687: John Reresby goes to Rotherham to receive an ancestral rent of one penny and the use of an inn room
- 24 June 1687: John Reresby, governor of York, protests James II’s plans to turn his residence into a Catholic school
- 12 September 1687: Installation of a bell at St Leonard’s, Thrybergh
- 21 February 1688: On Shrove-Tuesday, cock-throwing York apprentices break a Catholic window, and the militia intervenes, torturing citizens and violating their civic rights
- 24 April 1688: At Pontefract, the new Catholic and Dissenting members of the judiciary send James II thanks for permitting freedom of conscience, leading him to believe it has popular support
- 17 October 1688: York on the eve of the Glorious Revolution: “an archbishopric without a bishop, a city without a lord mayor, a garrison without a soldier”
- 1 April 1689: Miraculous extinction of a roof fire at Thrybergh Hall
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