Abraham de la Pryme. 1870. The Diary of Abraham de la Pryme, the Yorkshire Antiquary. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society.
Get it: All sources.- 11 June 1681: A recent grainstorm near Leeds
- 5 March 1695: Abraham de la Pryme learns about self-adhesive steel, marble-staining, and Nottingham alabaster
- 20 March 1695: Why there are more sheep than foxes
- 5 June 1696: The Great Recoinage brings a satellite of the Royal Mint to York and rioting to Rochdale
- 27 September 1696: A proverbial Michaelmas rhyme and parade at Scarborough parodies rent collectors
- 11 November 1696: On communicating with Nathaniel Johnston, hidden historian of Yorkshire
- 20 November 1697: Smooth-leaved holly as winter fodder for Pennine sheep
- 20 December 1697: Disastrous flooding in the lower Don, caused by the failure of the colonist Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme to cope with snow-melt
- 4 May 1698: In intense cold and lacking fodder, farmers at Halifax feed gorse to their livestock
- 7 May 1698: Abraham de la Pryme describes eel-fishing for animal feed in the River Went near Doncaster
- 25 November 1698: A scholar must also pursue a modern scoundrel like Dugdale the demoniac
- 21 June 1703: A whirlwind at Hatfield, Doncaster
- 28 January 1847: Edward Stillingfleet recounts finding a “British” chariot burial during excavation of 100 Iron Age tumuli at Arras and Hessleskew on the Wolds 30 years ago
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