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- 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
- 23 November 1843: James Byram of Gildersome is fined ruinously for selling used tea as new
- 8 October 1671: The infant Walter Calverley suffers the first of several near-fatal accidents
- 15 August 1677: John Thoresby writes from Leeds to his son Ralph in London recommending he keep a diary
- 13 February 1669: Oliver Heywood’s sons set off from Northowram to Heath Grammar School, Halifax, without having learned their Latin
- 31 July 1667: Thomas Danby, Leeds’s first mayor, is stabbed to death late at night in London
- 14 March 1670: The itinerant Presbyterian, Oliver Heywood, is arrested for preaching in a private house at Little Woodhouse, Leeds
- 27 June 1669: The vicar of Morley fails to persuade the local JP to prevent Oliver Heywood speaking from his pulpit
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