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- 18 January 1855: York Ecclesiastical Court tells Mrs Ackroyd of Knaresborough that any attempts by her husband to injure her are due to her divorce proceedings and failure to consort with him
- 26 April 1543: Robert Rawson, warder for the crown of the misses Levening, suggests to their mother at Acklam that she may wish to purchase them from him
- 19 May 1804: A woman is sold for the second time at Leeds market
- 24 April 1688: At Pontefract, the new Catholic and Dissenting members of the judiciary send James II, a Catholic, thanks for allowing freedom of religion, leading him to believe he has popular support
- 21 February 1688: On Shrove-Tuesday, cock-throwing York apprentices break a Catholic window, and the militia intervenes, torturing citizens and violating their civic rights
- 24 June 1687: John Reresby, governor of York, protests James II’s plans to turn his residence into a Catholic school
- 12 May 1687: Royal humour
- 7 April 1687: James II’s declaration of freedom of conscience arrives in Yorkshire, but fails in its alleged underlying intention – to drive people into the arms of the Catholic church
- 6 January 1687: Perhaps violating the discriminatory Test Acts, James II replaces Protestant justices of the peace by Catholics in the West Riding
- 2 September 1686: John Reresby describes his organisation of the York garrison