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- 27 July 1612: Jennet Preston, the only Yorkshirewoman among the Pendle witches, is found guilty at York of the murder of Thomas Lister of Westby Hall, Gisburn (Ribble Valley)
- 26 May 1941: Headingley’s Shire Oak falls, legendary site of Anglo-Saxon local government between Aire and Wharfe
- 27 July 1822: An inquest at York finds that John Furnel of the Queen’s Regiment of Foot died of flogging and resulting illness
- 23 January 1640: Andrew Marvell’s father drowns in the Humber at Hull
- 13 September 1894: J.B. Priestley descends on a cloud to the West Riding of Yorkshire
- 2 February 1806: John Yeadon helps a desperate sinner at a Methodist love-feast during the Great Revival at Yeadon
- 13 July 1820: Hannah, the disabled daughter of John Yeadon, is “insulted and assaulted”
- 17 March 1190: Jewish survivors of preceding massacres and overnight suicides plead from York castle walls to be allowed to convert to Christianity
- 15 August 1805: The Sheffield volunteer infantry depart to fight Napoleon on the beaches, which one man thinks might be in the Peak District
- 9 October 2010: Laura Wilson (17) is murdered by Ashtiaq Ashgar (17) in an “honour killing” near Meadowhall, Rotherham, following years of sexual abuse by Pakistani men
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