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- 7 February 1685: Notables at York await the death of Charles II, planning to prevent anti-papists and other dissidents from disrupting the accession of James II
- 15 January 1685: John Reresby, governor of York, refuses to help exempt Sheffield cutlers from the hearth tax because of insufficient rewards for past favours
- 28 October 1683: York’s governor fails to provoke a duel with someone who borrowed his cushion at the minster
- 5 October 1665: John Reresby finds that Charles II has broken a promise and made someone more generous than him sheriff of Yorkshire
- 20 October 1676: John Reresby of Thrybergh Hall (Rotherham) hears that the Duke of Norfolk is telling London that he killed a Barbadian servant by castrating him
- 12 September 1687: Installation of a bell at St Leonard’s, Thrybergh
- 16 May 1687: John Reresby goes to Rotherham to receive an ancestral rent of one penny and the use of an inn room
- 7 March 1687: Governor John Reresby records a perjurious witch trial at the York assizes, and the absurd tale of the old woman’s guards
- 24 August 1921: The British-built United States Navy R.38 airship collapses, explodes, and crashes into the Humber at Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew
- 30 December 1862: The Times reports that, on the eve of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Stonewall Jackson wishes above all to talk about York Minster and its splendid organ
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