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- 3 December 1816: A revolutionary bread riot is averted at Sheffield
- 10 November 1653: Thomas Baynes (allegedly) compares Parliament’s sequestrators to an agricultural pest
- 10 November 1817: Though organised Luddism is in decline, a gig-mill burns on Hunslet Lane, Leeds
- 8 November 1852: Commander John R. Ward, R.N., rescues Ann Millanby from the Tees at Stockton
- 8 November 1662: The Leeds corporation authorises the formation of trade guilds
- 2 August 1680: William Dolben, perhaps reluctantly, condemns Thomas Thwing to death at York for his part, without co-conspirators, in a fictitious conspiracy – the Popish Plot
- 23 July 1838: Mary Morellee of Birstwith (Nidderdale) is killed in a stagecoach race on Lofthouse Hill
- 22 April 1771: The Leeds and Liverpool Canal appeals the prices illegally set by Bingley landowners for the compulsory purchase of their ground
- 22 April 1339: During a crackdown on unregulated yeast-related activity, Wooldale (Holmfirth) is fined for hiding Alice del Bothe, its unofficial alehouse-keeper
- 30 April 1872: MPs discuss drink, proverbial curse of the working class, with James Wetherell, Leeds’s chief constable
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