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- 11 March 1730: News that John Barber, heir to Gawbert Hall (Lightcliffe), has married a servant
- 5 February 1730: News that Cyril Arthington of Arthington Hall has drunk himself to death on the birth of his son and heir
- 26 July 1699: Doncaster magistrates hear how Dr. Greene, a mountebank, assaulted those who sought to cancel his show
- 19 August 1728: An elderly gamekeeper at Pilley recalls the extrajudicial execution of a Dodworth man on the orders of young Sir Francis Wortley during the Civil War
- 14 October 1854: During the Crimean War, Queen Victoria visits the docks at Hull, and comparisons are made with the capital of our Turkish ally
- 25 May 1728: King Jessop, the fighting rector of Treeton (Rotherham), is buried at Sheffield, and remembered for his punch and his parody
- 13 March 1728: Wild daffodils in the hedges at Wickersley (Rotherham)
- 4 January 1728: Martha Savile (100) is buried at Mexborough (Doncaster) in a Cudworth family coffin
- 21 November 1727: The funeral of Cornelius Wood of Barnsley, killed in a rabbit trap
- 5 October 1727: The burial of Francis West (80), witness of the deforestation caused by demand for charcoal in iron production around Higham (Barnsley)
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