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- 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
- 4 May 1698: In intense cold and lacking fodder, farmers at Halifax feed gorse to their livestock
- 20 December 1697: Disastrous flooding in the lower Don, 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
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