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- 4 May 1698: In intense cold and lacking fodder, farmers at Halifax feed gorse to their livestock
- 20 December 1697: Terrible flooding in the lower Don is caused by the failure of the colonist Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme to cope with snow-melt
- 20 November 1697: Smooth-leaved holly as winter fodder for Pennine sheep
- 27 September 1696: A proverbial Michaelmas rhyme and parade at Scarborough parodies rent collectors
- 11 November 1696: On communicating with Nathaniel Johnston, hidden historian of Yorkshire
- 5 June 1696: The Great Recoinage brings a satellite of the Royal Mint to York and rioting to Rochdale
- 20 March 1695: Why there are more sheep than foxes
- 21 October 1555: Wool middlemen are once more permitted at Halifax to avoid the destruction of the local economy
- 5 March 1695: Abraham de la Pryme learns about self-adhesive steel, marble-staining, and Nottingham alabaster
- 23 December 1689: A Danish soldier is beheaded at Beverley for killing a comrade in a duel, inspiring some doggerel
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