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- 4 May 1643: The Royalists take Rotherham and begin a search for the preacher John Shawe
- 25 March 1831: Esther Dyson of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), charged with decapitating her infant daughter, is judged insane because she is deaf-mute
- 28 December 1642: Four months into the Civil War, the Puritan John Shawe of Rotherham preaches iconoclasm at St. Mary’s, Beverley
- 25 April 1668: Susannah Eyre rewards curious neighbours in her will
- 15 February 1647: “A stranger and pilgrim in the world,” Adam Eyre of Thurleston makes his funeral arrangements in his will
- 5 January 1726: Mr Wordsworth of New Laithes Grange (Horsforth) produces evidence of an attempted burglary and a lucky escape
- 1 January 1726: Heavy snow stops the post and kills parson William Baines of Dronfield at Froggatt Moss
- 1 January 1735: Silkstone parish sends the presumably destitute James Lindly (7) as a servant to John Hobson in Dodworth
- 18 May 1734: The epitaph on the tombstone of the prolific William Strutton of Patrington, buried this day
- 1 May 1734: “The forwardest spring that ever was known in the memory of man”
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