Mary Sinclair et al. in a field near Stepney, London - 1 April, 1777, at night
from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 14 February 2019), May 1777, trial of JAMES DIGNAM PATRICK SEAGROVE MATTHEW FARRELL (t17770514-44):
[Mary Sinclair]: I was coming from Stepney on Easter Tuesday night; my husband and I were the last behind, all the rest of the company were on before.
The company was pretty large? There were ten in company; we were in the second field from the Green Dragon from Stepney[.]
[…]
[Robert Sinclair]: I came from Stepney with my company; my shipmate had a penny candle in his hand, and we were singing very merry together; my wife had hold of my right arm[.]
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 14 February 2019), May 1777, trial of JAMES DIGNAM PATRICK SEAGROVE MATTHEW FARRELL (t17770514-44), number t17770514-44. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1551006650341 accessed: 3 January, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| unspecified singing | performed by Robert Sinclair, a sailor |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1 April, 1777, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, 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)