Martha Meridith in Piccadilly, London - 10 September, 1726, in the morning

from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), October 1726, trial of Jenkin Davis (t17261012-17):

[Jenkin Davis was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to branding] 

 

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Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), October 1726, trial of Jenkin Davis (t17261012-17), number t17261012-17. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1549638044358 accessed: 31 January, 2025

location of experience: Piccadilly, London

Listeners

Listening to

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unspecified whistling and singing performed by William Berry

Experience Information

Date/Time 10 September, 1726, in the morning
Medium live
Listening Environment outdoors, in public, solitary

Notes

The listening experience was identified in ‘The Proceedings of the Old Bailey’, a fully searchable database detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court. Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard and Jamie McLaughlin, et al., The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913 (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0 February 2019)

Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:00:44 +0000
Approved on Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:23:56 +0000