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- 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”
- 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
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