Entries for the tag ‘Heywood, Oliver (1630-1702)’
Bolton-born nonconformist minister and diarist, active in the West Riding, resident at Northowram, ejected for his beliefs. 
- 18 June 1664: Jane Thompson of Craven, “a swinish drunkard,” dies of a barely-treated compound fracture
- 1 November 1664: News of the Tadcaster boy-giant
- 2 March 1665: A sighting of the northern lights at Northowram (Halifax) recalls the eve of the civil war
- 10 March 1665: Blizzards and Dutch attacks prolong Restoration-induced shortages of fodder and coal at Northowram (Halifax)
- 21 July 1666: A white ghost army is seen by the Don near Sheffield
- 11 April 1667: A hubristic Sam Mitchell impersonates a gypsy in a Halifax pub, and nemesis follows
- 13 February 1669: Oliver Heywood’s sons set off from Northowram to Heath Grammar School, Halifax, without having learned their Latin
- 27 June 1669: The vicar of Morley fails to persuade the local JP to prevent Oliver Heywood speaking from his pulpit
- 14 March 1670: The itinerant Presbyterian, Oliver Heywood, is arrested for preaching in a private house at Little Woodhouse, Leeds
- 2 January 1673: Despite Charles II’s Declaration of Indulgence, Presbyterians Oliver Heywood and Christopher Richardson are detained while preaching at Lascelles Hall (Kirkburton)
- 24 February 1673: Oliver Heywood regrets impulsively baptising the child of an irresponsible Quaker father
- 27 August 1673: John Holden fatally mugs his wife at Lightcliffe (Calderdale), but witnesses are fearful, and the jury sees only manslaughter
- 29 November 1673: A verse warns Charles II against his brother James, six days after the latter’s marriage to an Italian Catholic
- 10 December 1673: The Rev. Heywood prays for more death and destruction in the new year
- 11 February 1674: A successful national fast
- 5 April 1674: An anonymous message to a preacher
- 11 May 1674: A poor man at Ossett (Wakefield) punishes his child for taking a piece of bread
- 23 June 1674: Oliver Heywood attends the funeral of Martha Stansfield and her baby
- 31 October 1674: Riding home to Pontefract from Wakefield fair, a sozzled Silvanus Rich enters the River Calder in flood at Wakefield bridge
- 17 December 1674: Michael Gilburn, a Halifax lawyer, terminates a drunken weekend in style
- 10 January 1675: George Aislabie, profiteering registrar of the York ecclesiastical court and assiduous duellist, challenges the wrong man
- 5 April 1676: The Lord saves a Presbyterian from his horse in Craven
- 12 February 1677: Heavy snow leaves Oliver Heywood unsure whether to cross the Pennines into Lancashire
- 24 June 1679: The world’s oldest wool carders?
- 23 October 1679: Presbyterian emotion at Gisburn, Ribble Valley (WR/Lancs)
- 24 January 1680: Miners rob, murder and burn a pit-owning nonconformist minister and his mother and maid at Beeston (Leeds)
- 27 September 1680: The Rev Oliver Heywood shows disregard for Calvinist views on fasting, for his horses, and for his wife
- 11 December 1680: The Great Comet is seen at Halifax as a natural event, in London – amid Popish Plot hysteria – as a portent
- 23 August 1681: John Heywood’s is ordained at John Hey’s in Craven
- 2 April 1683: A domestic dispute at the Heywoods’ in Northowram (Halifax)
- 31 October 1684: Mrs Taylor of Brighouse, a Quaker, is buried upright next to her husband and daughter in their garden
- 5 February 1691: Approaching 60, Oliver Heywood contemplates his place in the cosmos
- 28 March 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing
- 21 April 1821: John Cockin, Holmfirth minister, describes the remains of Richard Frankland’s late 17th century dissenting academy at Rathmell, Craven
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