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- 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 (West Riding)
- 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 in Halifax as a natural event, in London – amid Popish Plot hysteria – as a portent
- 24 January 1680: Miners rob, murder and burn a pit-owning nonconformist minister and his mother and maid at Beeston (Leeds)
- 1 January 1680: The preacher Thomas Sharp compares New Year revellers in Leeds to the pagan Jews in Babylon
- 27 January 1830: William Cobbett rides from Leeds to black Sheffield
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