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- 20 January 1536: Thomas Cromwell’s dissolvers of monasteries, Richard Layton and Thomas Legh, report allegations of whoring and theft by William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains
- 13 January 1536: Richard Layton, dissolver of monasteries, writes to Thomas Cromwell claiming that Yorkshire clergy use birth control
- 12 August 1439: Joan Cantcliffe, widow, buys a pension and a lifetime lease on a basement flat in the hall of the Mistry of Mercers, York
- 13 November 1478: Edward IV orders the London merchant adventurers to allow their Yorkshire colleagues fair access to Low Countries markets for their woollen cloth
- 27 May 1576: The Elizabethan Ecclesiastical Commission at York prohibits performance of a Corpus Christi play at Wakefield
- 8 June 1561: A York official explains why textile manufacturing has left his city for the West Riding
- 25 March 1667: Burials must henceforth be in wool, in order to support woollen manufacturers and reduce linen imports
- 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”
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