Anna Seward et al. in Lichfield - May, 1795
from Letter from Anna Seward to Chris. Smythe, Esq., 7 April 1796, page 196:
They [the Duke of Somerset and Mr Mitchel] were here on our grotesque Whitsun- Monday anniversary, connected, time immemorial, with the charter of our city.—It is the vulgar jubilee of the town and its environs. Guns are fired over every house;—gaudy morris-dancers caper in the thronged streets;—emblematic figures, and garlands, are carried on poles;—meat, cakes, and wine, are given gratis, under awnings;—drums, and tabors, and fiddles, are dinning amid the crowd,
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Anna Seward, Letter from Anna Seward to Chris. Smythe, Esq., 7 April 1796. In Archibald Constable (ed.), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, volume 4 (Edinburgh, 1811), p. 196. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535749563325 accessed: 24 November, 2024
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Listening to
hide composers| Music at the Whitsun-Monday celebrations | performed by Townspeople of Lichfield |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | May, 1795 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Notes
Anna Seward is recalling a visit made by the Duke of Somerset and Mr Mitchel the previous year, 1795.