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- 25 March 1685: The York apprentices ask John Reresby to lead their new militia troop
- 17 June 1685: John Reresby tells the House of Commons that London deserves higher taxes because its very existence is a tax on the rest of England
- 13 October 1863: After a long and acrimonious strike, Henry Briggs, co-owner of Methley Junction Colliery, receives a letter
- 1 April 1689: Miraculous extinction of a roof fire at Thrybergh Hall
- 17 October 1688: York on the eve of the Glorious Revolution: “an archbishopric without a bishop, a city without a lord mayor, a garrison without a soldier”
- 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
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