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- 5 October 1895: With the Northern Rugby Football Union only six weeks old, a perhaps upper-class Londoner laments that payments for “broken time” will lead to professionalism
- 25 August 1662: Following Charles II’s purge of Presbyterian ministers, Roundhead Captain John Hodgson of Coley Hall (Halifax) is again harassed as a suspected plotter
- 13 September 1816: The greatness of Great Britain
- 26 August 1600: Following the Restoration, powerful local Catholics invade the Hackness (Scarborough) home of Sir Thomas Hoby, Puritan commissioner and newcomer
- 17 May 1602: Michael Steele of Skelton (York) complains to Star Chamber about the following comic playlet, alleging an adulterous affair with his maidservant, Francis Thornton
- 26 July 1858: Walter White samples the nascent Brontë tourist industry at Haworth, but declines to buy photographs or visit the father
- 26 July 1858: Walter White finds ancient gloom in Shipley and new hope in Titus Salt’s Saltaire
- 11 July 1858: In Whitby, Walter White buys a religious ballad printed at Otley and called ‘The railway to heaven’
- 5 May 1601: Margaret Hoby of Hackness (Scarborough) spends the day praising the Creator and pondering one of His creations
- 17 August 1618: Walking from London to Edinburgh, Ben Jonson drives a parson and an innkeeper into an alcoholic frenzy at Tollerton (York),
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