18 May 1732: The burial of George Crooks of Barnsley, who died of camping
Francis T. Billam. 1806. A Walk Through Leeds. Leeds: J.H. Leach. Get it:
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This day Mr George Crooks was buried at Royston. He died Monday last, at night, of a consumption, occasioned, as he thought, by too much liquor, which he got when he went to see Mrs Spencer, of Cannon Hall, which overpowered him so much that he was obliged to lie in a close, under a hedge, all night.
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What does “consumption” mean here? Mrs Spencer only survived him by five years.
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This day Mr. George Crooks was buried at Royston. He died Monday last, at night, of a consumption, occasioned, as he thought, by too much liquor, which he got when he went to see Mrs. Spencer, of Cannon Hall, which overpowered him so much that he was obliged to lie in a close, under a hedge, all night.
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- Alcohol (drug) (59)
· - Alcohol intoxication (27) ·
- 📌Barnsley (24) ·
- Camping (1) ·
- Cannon Hall (3) ·
- Hedge (2) ·
- Royston, South Yorkshire (3) ·
- Spencer, Christiana (?-1737) (1), lived with William Spencer at Cannon Hall, buried at Cawthorne ·
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