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- 28 February 1867: The lawyer of Thomas Higginbottom, a Dewsbury baker, tells magistrates that his client’s previous conviction for sexual assault should not count against him
- 2 March 1867: Zachariah Barton, “a tall, sanctified-looking man,” appears before Driffield magistrates for “expounding the gospel”
- 3 March 1867: Robbed by a young Leeds prostitute, the elderly captain of a Goole boat keeps his shirt on
- 2 March 1867: Anthony Cogan, the (Irish?) keeper of a lodging house, nine pigs, and a donkey, appears before Leeds magistrates, despite the efforts of the Pig Protection Society
- 2 March 1830: Leeds Corporation prosecutes its own waste contractors, Messrs Kelly, and a Woodhouse Moor landowner, who have been fly-tipping fæces
- 17 January 1832: A waning Paganini plays for a grateful but declining public at Leeds Music Hall
- 1 November 1530: Dining at Cawood on All Hallows’ Day, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII’s ex-Lord Chancellor, receives divine warning that his time is nigh
- 14 December 1832: On election day following passage of the Reform Act, the magistrate Thomas Bosville has troops fire on radical rioters outside the Tontine Inn, Sheffield, killing five
- 16 November 1827: John Nicholson, “the Yorkshire Poet,” an “uncouth clownish-looking man,” appears at Bow Street charged with creating a disturbance at Drury Lane
- 22 November 1839: Bradford rejects its new vicar William Scoresby’s proposal for a church rate by a huge majority, inspiring a curious letter
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