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- 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
- 9 October 1647: The Puritan Adam Eyre is in two minds about flogging his maid
- 8 June 1646: As the First English Civil War draws to a close, Mrs Eyre rages at Mr for criticising her clothes
- 17 July 1785: Mr Strother, a York draper’s assistant, finds that diarising is not for common folk
- 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
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