George Marshall et al. in The Ship Alehouse, Stamford-hill, London - 27 September, 1766, at night
from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), October 1766, trial of Henry Peake (t17661022-47):
[Henry Peake was found guilty on 22 October 1766 of stealing a silver tankard and sentenced to branding]
John York: I live with Mr. Marshall [keeper of the Ship alehouse, Stamford Hill]. On the 27th of September there were eight or nine men and a woman came into our house; they had several tankards of beer, and bread and cheese; some sang, some went to dancing, at last they quarrelled; the prisoner was one of them, I remember him in particular; he ran about the room dancing; he was soon missing out of the company; after which my master missed a silver tankard[.]
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), October 1766, trial of Henry Peake (t17661022-47), number t17661022-47. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1550932475483 accessed: 25 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| unspecified singing | performed by Henry Peake, unnamed men and women |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 27 September, 1766, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, 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)