8 October 1671: The infant Walter Calverley suffers the first of several near-fatal accidents
Walter Calverley. 1886. Memorandum Book of Sir Walter Calverley, Bart. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Samuel Margerison. Durham: Surtees Society. Get it:
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8 October, 1671: I fell into a tub of water, and had like to have been drowned. 10 or 20 of June, 1672: I fell into a pan-full of milk, and was taken out for dead. 6 May, 1674: I had a fever at York, which lasted 10 days.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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Arthur Ponsonby:
Two early experiences give one hope that the diarist was a humorist… But unfortunately no spark of humour or indeed personal opinion occurs again throughout the pages, which consist merely of a recital, often very elaborate, of business matters, deaths, accidents, visits, with an occasional reference to cock-fighting (Ponsonby 1923).
I have nevertheless included several other entries.
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8 October, 1671. I fell into a tub of water, and had like to have been drowned.
10 or 20 of June, 1672. I fell into a pan full of milk, and was taken out for dead.
6 May, 1674. I had a fever at York, which lasted 10 days.
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- Accident (25)
· - 📌Calverley Old Hall (2), medieval manor house at Calverley, scene of a dual filicide in 1605, left by the Calverleys for Esholt Hall in around 1710 ·
- Calverley, Walter (1670-1749) (4), 1st Baronet, diarist ·
- 📌Calverley (6) ·
- Child (17) ·
- Drowning (22) ·
- Early childhood (3) ·
- Fever (4) ·
- Milk (3) ·
- West Riding of Yorkshire (147) ·
- 📌York (164) ·
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