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- 6 July 1381: John de Erghom and others in service of the Beverley oligarchy murder William Haldane and throw him in a pit on Walker Lane
- 10 January 1761: Jane Delamoth dies and is remembered in shorthand at St Mary’s, Sculcoates (Hull)
- 9 January 1935: Returning from Bear Island, the trawler Edgar Wallace capsizes in the Humber at Hull, killing 15
- 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 Thurlstone (Barnsley) makes his funeral arrangements
- 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
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