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Posted: Tue 12 Oct, 2010 8:53 am
by Leeds Hippo
Thought this deserved it's own thread - this day in 1663http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnley_Wood_Plot
Posted: Tue 12 Oct, 2010 12:28 pm
by grumpybloke
Thank you for that, I had never heard of this.
Posted: Tue 12 Oct, 2010 11:35 pm
by STICKS
Was it Farnley in Leeds ?
Posted: Tue 12 Oct, 2010 11:43 pm
by anthonydna
In between New Farnley and Gildersome.
Posted: Fri 15 Oct, 2010 1:16 pm
by beanoboy
Three of the plotters were executed in Chapel Allerton and their heads were displayed outside the moot hall in Briggate. The heads remained there for thirteen years until bown down in a storm.