Job Nutton in Shoe Lane, London, England - 12 January, 1732, 07:00 PM
from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), January 1732, trial of Constantine Conway Samuel Quan (t17320114-38):
[The listening experience informs Job Nutton’s testimony on 14 January 1732 about being robbed by two men ten days earlier]
Job Nutton: About 7 a Clock, last Wednesday Night, I was going along Fleet-street, to my Master (who was at the Bull-head Tavern at Temple-bar) and, on this Side Shoe Lane, there were two Girls, who were singing Ballads; and a Gentleman threatned to beat the Girls, because some-body had pick'd his Pocket.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), January 1732, trial of Constantine Conway Samuel Quan (t17320114-38) , number t17320114-38. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1549639776622 accessed: 8 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| unspecified Ballad singing | performed by Girls |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 12 January, 1732, 07:00 PM |
| 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)