- Pontefract Castle 14th Century
- 1396 - On Monday 30th October 1396, Isabella, daughter of Charles VI of France and wife of Richard II, Pontefract Castle's most famous prisoner, met him for the first time between Guînes and Ardres.
- Pontefract Castle 18th Century
- 1711 - On 30th October 1711, Pontefract Corporation made an order: ‘That Mr Waterhouse, the present Mayor, do make a warrant to some person who will take and collect the Toll of the boats that pass and repass on the river Aire, betwixt Knottingley and Temple Hurst. And that if any person refuse to pay the same, that the person so nominated and appointed distrain for the same. And that he be indemnified by the town for so doing…….the same shall be granted by lease to such persons in Trust….and that the profits thereof be and go to the public use of the Charity School of Pontefract.’ A set of rules for the management of the school was soon agreed. Initially, the school educated and clothed twenty-four boys and twelve girls.