Elizabeth Fox et al. in Haymarket, London - 23 October, 1740, 11:00 PM

from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 February 2019), January 1741, trial of Elizabeth Fox Priscilla Mahon , alias Trilcourt John Elvar (t17410116-17):

[The three accused were found guilty of assault and robbery on 16 January 1741, sentenced to death and executed at Tyburn on 18 March 1741. An account of the executions describes one of the listeners, Thomas Richardson, as Elizabeth Fox’s husband, who turned evidence and so ‘hang’d his wife’ (Ordinary’s Account, 18 March 1741, ref.  OA17410318)]

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Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 February 2019), January 1741, trial of Elizabeth Fox Priscilla Mahon , alias Trilcourt John Elvar (t17410116-17), number t17410116-17. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1550822789189 accessed: 11 October, 2024

location of experience: Haymarket, London

Listeners

Elizabeth Fox
Domestic servant
1717-1741
John Elvar
grocer's journeyman
1720-1741
Pricilla Mahon [Trilcourt]
Domestic servant
1716-1741

Listening to

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unspecified songs performed by Elizabeth Fox, John Elvar, Pricilla Mahon [Trilcourt]

Experience Information

Date/Time 23 October, 1740, 11:00 PM
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

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, 22 Feb 2019 08:06:29 +0000
Approved on Mon, 01 Apr 2019 11:09:23 +0100