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- 16 November 1814: The appearance of blacksmith Samuel Hick as he tells Selby Wesleyans how, in a dream, he sailed to the West Indies to liberate the slaves
- 27 May 1776: Samuel Hick, apprentice blacksmith, overcomes his pacifist leanings to rescue the Wesleyan Richard Burdsall from an Anglican assailant at York
- 24 January 1826: Samuel Hick, blacksmith and Methodist preacher of Micklefield (Leeds), writes to his “dear bosom frend and beloved wife” and daughter Jan
- 5 May 1546: Sir Henry Savile invites William Plumpton to a cockfight at Sheffield between Derbyshire, Lancashire and … Hallamshire
- 28 July 1887: “Local and Leeds cattle smallholders are abusing the (feudal) right to pasturage in Pontefract Park”
- 6 September 1823: A list of tithes included in, and excluded from, future Tory MP Richard Fountayne Wilson’s offer to pay the vicar of Leeds half the cost of their abolition
- 10 October 1760: The road surface between Yarm to Guisborough; freight transport in the north
- 14 May 1760: Bishop Pococke finds Richmondshire’s Kirklevington shorthorns in better condition than its fish and farmers
- 13 May 1760: Bishop Richard Pococke talks to a local farmer about the Swale-side remains of the Roman fort of Cataractonium on the Great North Road
- 15 June 1635: The administration of warrants by the Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby, “the best JP in the land”
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