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- 10 August 1766: John Wesley crowd-counts 20,000 at Daw Green, Dewsbury
- 24 July 1766: Hats off for Jesus at Pateley Bridge
- 24 July 1761: Jonas Rushford (14) of Bradford tells a perhaps envious John Wesley how the Skipton magician Timothy Crowther helped him find a missing man
- 19 July 1761: John Wesley speaks at the first love-feast at Birstall
- 3 July 1761: John Wesley visits an unjustly bankrupted Yarm liquor smuggler in York Castle
- 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
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