Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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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) (60) ·
• 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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