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- 2 January 1673: Despite Charles II’s Declaration of Indulgence, Presbyterians Oliver Heywood and Christopher Richardson are detained while preaching at Lascelles Hall (Kirkburton)
- 14 August 1673: A retired coal miner, unable to live from carding wool, decides to go down a pit at Royds Hall (Bradford)
- 27 August 1673: John Holden fatally mugs his wife at Lightcliffe (Calderdale), but witnesses are fearful, and the jury sees only manslaughter
- 11 May 1674: A poor man at Ossett (Wakefield) punishes his child for taking a piece of bread
- 22 September 1674: A shotgun wedding ends in tragedy for young Mr Robinson of Sowerby
- 17 December 1674: Michael Gilburn, a Halifax lawyer, terminates a drunken weekend in style
- 10 January 1675: George Aislabie, profiteering registrar of the York ecclesiastical court and assiduous duellist, challenges the wrong man
- 9 March 1721: Thomas Brodrick tells Lord Middleton how John Aislabie, Ripon MP and Walpole’s chancellor, was sent to the Tower for taking bribes from the South Sea Company
- 23 January 1720: Mr Robertson demonstrates his ultra-compact inflatable boat on the Aire at Leeds
- 5 September 1914: Boycott professional football to get players to fight the Germans, says the ex-vicar of Oulton in the Rothwell local paper
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