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- 12 September 1680: Francis and Mary Huntrodes are buried together at St. Mary’s, Whitby with a poetic epitaph
- 7 June 1703: A list of shares in ship-owning partnerships held by Samuel Pinder of Whitby on this date
- 30 April 1704: Whitby’s Church of England parish register records a wedding celebrated, perhaps illegally, at the Quakers Meeting
- 27 June 1743: Tom Brown of Kirkleatham’s heroics against the French today at Dettingen (Bavaria) lead his general, George II, to grant him a silver prosthetic nose, immortalised in ballad and portrait
- 13 June 1709: The population of Whitby are told when they may bury their dead
- 10 December 1710: A Whitby puppeteer tries to take revenge on a delinquent spectator
- 20 March 1840: A judge finds that Charles Brown (52) feigned deafness to try to evade the gallows for sexually assaulting young Frederick Haselm at Hull
- 22 July 1932: Bradford Lord Mayor George Walker, on a jolly to France to make composer Frederick Delius a freeman, is taxed mercilessly by customs officials
- 30 January 1934: The wife of the Vicar of Weston, near Otley, has a nocturnal premonition of the death of the composer Frederick Delius
- 4 July 1838: 26 girls and boys drown trying to escape via a tunnel from flash flooding in Huskar Colliery, Silkstone, Barnsley, after the steam lifts fail during a rainstorm
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