Eleanor Wheeler et al. in London, England - 13 August, 1767
from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), September 1767, trial of Michael Doyle , otherwise Heyden (t17670909-68):
[Michael Doyle was found guilty on 9 September 1767 of grand larceny and sentenced to transportation]
Eleanor Wheeler: I was Justice Miller's servant; I saw the prisoner about ten minutes before he was taken; there was a poor woman playing on music near my master's door, and he gave the poor woman a penny; the woman had two children[.]
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), September 1767, trial of Michael Doyle , otherwise Heyden (t17670909-68), number t17670909-68. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1550933513832 accessed: 2 February, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Unspecified music | performed by a poor woman |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 13 August, 1767 |
| Medium | live |
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)