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- 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),
- 20 September 1635: Angry villagers bear William Hodshon on a pole into Sunday service at Appleton Wiske (Northallerton), assisted by a bagpiper and a churchwarden
- 20 April 1631: Quoting Elizabeth I’s 1572 Vagabonds Act, justices of the peace in Thirsk order a crackdown on a variety of vagabonds
- 28 April 1489: Yorkshire tax rebels kill Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, at South Kilvington (Thirsk), leading to a very expensive funeral at Beverley Minster
- 7 August 1611: Jonas Poole’s London whaler sinks in Forlandsundet (Spitsbergen), and the survivors make for the Hopewell of Hull
- 26 April 1867: In a requiem to Hull’s whaling industry, the Diana bears the corpse of Captain Gravill into port at the end of its fateful Arctic voyage
- 10 January 1867: Short of fresh provisions amid Arctic ice, the surgeon of the Diana of Hull decides to blame (Yorkshire) tea for symptoms of scurvy among the crew
- 25 December 1866: Starving amidst Arctic ice, and with Captain Gravill on his deathbed, the crew of the Diana of Hull celebrate a “horrible mockery of the spirit of an English Christmas”
- 30 June 1866: The crew of the Diana of Hull kill and process two right whales – a small fortune – in Melville Bay, off northwestern Greenland
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