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- 29 September 1704: Deeds, conveyances, and wills in the West Riding must henceforth be publicly registered in Wakefield to be considered valid
- 18 July 1784: Wesley finds children “restrained from open sin” at one of the first Sunday schools, at Bingley
- 17 May 1823: “Doncaster fertiliser manufacturers imported more than a million bushels of skeletons from Waterloo and other Napoleonic battlefields in 1822”
- 21 June 1703: A whirlwind at Hatfield, Doncaster
- 25 November 1978: A rambunctious Leeds wedding
- 2 February 1609: A crowd-pleasing morality play at Candlemas at Gouthwaite Hall in Catholic Nidderdale lands the cordwainer-players and their patron before the Star Chamber
- 22 August 1596: A lewd church parade at Cawthorne, Barnsley
- 25 November 1698: A scholar must also pursue a modern scoundrel like Dugdale the demoniac
- 30 January 1709: Charles Boswell, king of the gypsies, is buried at Rossington, Doncaster
- 7 May 1698: Abraham de la Pryme describes eel-fishing for animal feed in the River Went near Doncaster
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