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- 7 September 1874: A bell-ringing contest at All Saints Church, Wath upon Dearne prompts an outraged editorial in the trade journal
- 4 October 1831: The end of a 33-week strike by weavers at Gott’s, Leeds
- 29 October 1671: Margaret Pinchbeck of Pickering tells the York coroner that she killed her husband with an axe, and that he deserved to die
- 22 October 1906: The Yorkshire Herald reports that the king of the Wensleydale dry-stone wallers has discovered a devil among the stones
- 28 August 1661: The York assizes hear of a fatal military brawl at a Malton inn, involving rouges (roundheads), Charles II’s pardon for crimes during the interregnum, and flatulence
- 21 July 1666: A white ghost army is seen by the Don near Sheffield
- 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
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