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- 29 February 1824: Prophet John Wroe is baptised on the Leap Day in the Aire near Apperley Bridge before an audience of 30,000
- 31 October 1684: Mrs Taylor of Brighouse, a Quaker, is buried upright next to her husband and daughter in their garden
- 15 September 1679: The election at York for the Exclusion Bill Parliament is devolved to more convenient locations
- 8 June 1679: At death’s door, Brian Bentley, the Halifax Poet, refuses a cap unless it be a barley-cap
- 3 May 1804: Settlement of an absurdly modest legal bill from Joseph Bentley of Bradford
- 23 October 1679: Presbyterian emotion at Gisburn, Ribble Valley (WR/Lancs)
- 23 August 1681: John Heywood’s is ordained at John Hey’s in Craven
- 27 September 1680: The Rev Oliver Heywood manifests disregard for Calvinist views on fasting, for his horses, and for his wife
- 24 June 1679: The world’s oldest wool carders?
- 11 December 1680: The Great Comet is seen at Halifax as a natural event, in London – amid Popish Plot hysteria – as a portent
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