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- 11 September 1666: Nine days after the start of the Great Fire, Margaret Hodgson of Richmond tells a York court that a beggar told her yesterday of a plot to burn London
- 8 September 1485: At York, Henry VII sells the wardship of Anne Salvain of Thorpe Salvin (Rotherham) to William Hussey, Lord Chief Justice
- 15 January 1873: Mr Fairest details the historical embezzlement and misdirection of charity funds in Ecclesfield (Sheffield), until the audience can take no more
- 16 January 1873: William Town, a married man of Sorby Street, Sheffield, receives a parcel from his ex-mistress
- 26 January 1835: What a pyromaniac mob found in the new Eyre Street anatomy school, according to sensationalist Sheffield printer William Burgin
- 18 December 1673: A secure archive of charitable trusts is established in Leeds parish church
- 13 December 1795: A smoking-hot meteorite weighing 25 kg imperils labourer John Shipley at Wold Cottage Farm, Muston (ER)
- 26 November 1851: Exports in sterling to foreign ports for the year to date by one of Hull’s largest shippers, Brownlow, Pearson and Co.
- 16 November 1771: Rescue boats are brought overland from Stockton to Yarm, flooded by ice melt and heavy rain from Teesdale
- 25 October 1417: Without prejudice to Crispin and Crispinian, England celebrates a miracle at the tomb of St John of Beverley during the Battle of Agincourt two years ago
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