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- 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
- 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”
- 31 December 1733: John Hobson reviews a pleasant but surprising December
- 24 October 1733: Sir John Stapylton of Myton-on-Swale loses a fight with a sheep
- 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
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