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- 17 November 1812: A doggerel inscription at St. George’s, Doncaster, commemorates two sons of ringing master Robert Smith, one of whom died by his father’s bells
- 7 September 1837: Mary Frances Heaton is gaoled at Doncaster for a breach of the peace and later sent to the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum
- 11 August 1863: A painful scene at the burial of Adam Watson at Worsbrough Dale (Barnsley)
- 8 August 1863: The police are invited to a cricket match on Woodhouse Moor (Leeds), designed to test the byelaws passed during its conversion from common land to People’s Park
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower
- 18 August 1730: Elizabeth Hawksworth endeavours to mount a horse behind her husband
- 25 July 1730: John Hobson encounters two outlandish, free-living men at Thirsk
- 27 May 1730: John Hobson writes off two thirds of a £48 debt because the debtor has fled to Crayke (Easingwold) in the Liberty of Durham
- 28 April 1730: John Hobson meets a nematicide at Woodall (Rotherham)
- 28 March 1730: John Hobson pays his Easter dues to the rector
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