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- 9 July 1680: The Protestant Robert Bolron says that William Battley of Leeds lied in saying that Bolron had falsely accused the Catholic Sir Thomas Gascoigne of treason, and was fussy about almanacs
- 17 December 1688: Mass mobilisation in Leeds on rumours of an imminent Celtic counteroffensive against the Glorious Revolution
- 28 October 1648: A letter claims that Pontefract Castle under John Morris, its Royalist governor, has become a den of apolitical brigands
- 3 June 1648: Disguised as a furniture remover, John Morris takes Pontefract castle for the Stuarts (and for himself)
- 31 August 1651: John Wilks (Thompson, Smith…), of Knaresborough gives a York court a glimpse of the life of a Catholic hedge priest
- 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
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