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- 10 March 1665: Blizzards and Dutch attacks prolong Restoration-induced shortages of fodder and coal at Northowram (Halifax)
- 2 March 1665: A sighting of the northern lights at Northowram (Halifax) recalls the eve of the civil war
- 1 November 1664: News of the Tadcaster boy-giant
- 18 June 1664: Jane Thompson of Craven, “a swinish drunkard,” dies of a barely-treated compound fracture
- 30 November 1668: A Calverley boy dies in his father’s church, a victim of the bell-ringers
- 29 November 1673: A verse warns Charles II against his brother James, six days after the latter’s marriage to an Italian Catholic
- 10 December 1673: The Rev. Heywood prays for more death and destruction in the new year
- 11 April 1667: A hubristic Sam Mitchell impersonates a gypsy in a Halifax pub, and nemesis follows
- 5 April 1676: The Lord saves a Presbyterian from his horse in Craven
- 5 April 1674: An anonymous message to a preacher
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