Mary Anniball in Newgate market, London - between 1740 and 1749
from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 01 February 2019), July 1740, trial of Sarah Batchelor (t17400709-43):
[Sarah Batchelor was found not guilty of grand larceny on 9 July 1740]
Sarah Batchelor, of Christ Church, was indicted for stealing a Green Silk Purse, val.1 d. and 4 Half Guineas, and 10 s.6 d. in Silver, the Property of Mary Dalby[.]
[…]
Mary Anniball: I keep a Butter-Shop, just by Mr. Trueman's Bacon-shop: and I saw the Prisoner go by my Shop a Minute before the Purse was lost [...] I knew her no otherways, than by singing Ballads about the Market.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 01 February 2019), July 1740, trial of Sarah Batchelor (t17400709-43), number t7400709-43. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1550821468685 accessed: 1 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| unspecified Ballad singing at a market | performed by Sarah Batchelor |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between 1740 and 1749 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in public |
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)