28 March 1730: John Hobson pays his Easter dues to the rector
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
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Paid Francis Goddard his Easter dues, which are a dozen and a half in eggs, and 4d. in money. Paid him one pound for mortuaries; one for uncle Fretwell, who was buried March 19th, 1719, and my mother.
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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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Paid Francis Goddard his Easter dues, which are a dozen and a half in eggs, and 4d. in money. Paid him one pound for mortuaries; one for uncle Fretwell, who was buried March 19th, 1719, and my mother.
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- Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
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