Watchman John Jones in Well Close Square, London, England - 15 October, 1731, at night
from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), December 1731, trial of Thomas Woolcott (t17311208-41).:
[Thomas Woolcott, a 19 year old cooper was found guilty and executed at Tyburn on 20 December 1731, an account of which is given by the Newgate Prison chaplain, reference number OA17311220]
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Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), December 1731, trial of Thomas Woolcott (t17311208-41)., number t17311208-41. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1549638796026 accessed: 30 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| riotous singing | performed by rowdy fellows |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 15 October, 1731, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | outdoors, in public, solitary |
Notes
The listening experience was identified in ‘The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913’, 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)