Now! Then! Tag: Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)

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Leeds-born antiquarian and its first historian, non-conformist, merchant, fellow of the Royal Society, diarist, author, common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds, museum keeper.

15 August 1677: John Thoresby writes from Leeds to his son Ralph in London recommending he keep a diary
1 January 1680: The preacher Thomas Sharp compares New Year revellers in Leeds to the pagan Jews in Babylon
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 June 1681: A recent grainstorm near Leeds
26 August 1693: Thomas Sharp, a Leeds nonconformist minister, finds some dying words for his wife
27 April 1703: Ralph Thoresby of Leeds sends a list of “local” dialect words to the naturalist and linguist John Ray – an alphabet of your compiler’s favourites
1 February 1708: A wide range of citizens receives the sacrament at Leeds parish church, one for the first time
22 May 1711: Leeds’s first white-cloth hall is opened on Kirkgate, replacing the outdoor market on Briggate, and competing with Wakefield’s 1710 building
5 February 1730: News that Cyril Arthington of Arthington Hall has drunk himself to death on the birth of his son and heir
26 May 1941: Headingley’s Shire Oak falls, legendary site of Anglo-Saxon local government between Aire and Wharfe

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