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- 25 July 1603: Sir Richard Wortley, persecutor of his neighbours, dies, and is zoomorphised as the protagonist of the ballad of the Dragon of Wantley
- 8 August 1514: Sir Thomas Wortley’s death inaugurates the memorial he has built for himself at Wharncliffe
- 15 April 1729: John Hobson of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), pessimist, believes he is about to die
- 9 April 2021: The Singing Organ-Grinder sees his new home of Leeds from the M62, and a terrible memory surfaces
- 31 May 1844: Mrs Haslegrave is savaged by her brother-in-law’s bear at his pleasure garden in Wakefield
- 1 November 1643: Sam Priestley of Soyland (22) saves a Royalist enemy from drowning in Hebden Water at the Battle of Heptonstall, and himself dies later of pneumonia
- 27 February 1717: Julia Calverley of Esholt Hall completes ten panels of needlework currently displayed at Wallington Hall, Northumberland
- 3 October 1715: Government agents arrive at Esholt Hall in search of Walter Calverley’s Jacobite brother-in-law, William Blackett
- 30 May 1705: Gloves, scarves and money are distributed liberally among attendees of the funeral of Waide Calverley
- 8 January 1844: Members of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot stationed at Leeds riot against a graffito
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