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- 24 June 1761: A cat joins John Wesley’s street congregation at Robin Hood’s Bay
- 22 June 1761: John Wesley is troubled by fish at Guisborough
- 18 June 1847: A local historian tells the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine that Guisborough is not – as an evangelist claims – “a nest of atheists and infidels”
- 11 April 1827: York’s medieval Company of Merchant Adventurers asks a court to prevent John Harwood, a Petergate druggist, from selling foreign goods without membership or a licence
- 16 November 1814: Blacksmith Samuel Hick pantomimes for Selby Wesleyans a dream in which he sails 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
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