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)]
… more >>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
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersunspecified 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)