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- 8 October 1733: John Hobson bids £1,400 for most of Delph, including the famous Friarmere bakestone pit
- 30 April 1733: John Hobson sacks his maidservant for alcohol abuse
- 24 March 1733: Several couples ensure their marriage licences are Latin
- 29 May 1732: Old William Lindley of Dodworth tells various marvellous stories from his youth
- 5 May 1732: William Lindley of Dodworth recalls how charcoal burners would cheat coal merchants at the time of the Restoration
- 18 May 1732: The burial of George Crooks of Barnsley, who died of camping
- 3 April 1732: Mr Spencer’s great ox is killed at Barnsley
- 22 September 1731: Death of a mad mule-baiter
- 12 September 1731: Edward Garner of Dodworth dies, perhaps the victim of his runaway horse
- 22 March 1731: “Vegetable caterpillars” amid the artichokes at Dodworth (Barnsley)
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