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- 9 May 1622: Leeds corporation legislates against Sunday street life
- 26 March 1662: The Leeds corporation appoints a cook, Thomas Gorst
- 14 February 1779: James Cook of Marton-in-Cleveland tries to recover a boat from some Hawaiians
- 17 November 1839: Excise officers entrap Leeds barbers violating the sabbath
- 1 June 1300: Margaret of France, Queen of England, goes into labour at Brotherton while hunting
- 17 May 1828: Joseph Pickles of Wilsden, a Methodist convert, dies, having partially recovered his sight, and helped produce 410 descendants
- 12 July 1770: William Hickington, the Pocklington Poet, writes a verse-will
- 2 October 1800: Part of an obituary to Harry Rowe, Punch and Judy man, trumpeter at the Battle of Culloden and the York assizes, who died today, old and ill, in the York poorhouse
- 6 May 1800: A bread riot at Leeds market, during Napoleon’s blockade of Britain, and following a harvest failure in 1799
- 22 August 1853: Leeds retailers agree to early closing – eight o’clock in summer and seven in winter
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