30 April 1733: John Hobson sacks his maidservant for alcohol abuse
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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Discharged Ann Turton, for maliciously putting butter in the ale when it was working, and several other faults.
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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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In bread, fat slows down yeast, leading to longer fermentation time and more flavour, so was Ms Turton trying to create better product for her boss?
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Discharged Ann Turton, for maliciously putting butter in the ale when it was working, and several other faults.
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- Beer (34)
· - Butter (3) ·
- 📌Dodworth (17) ·
- Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
- Yeast (1) ·
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