Evidence: | Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery:
"When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked for the Daily Advertiser, there I saw the paragraph about a dead highwayman..." |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Sep 1752 and 30 Sep 1752 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Coffee-house in Long-acre |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alexander Bourk |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | a foreigner |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Daily Advertiser |
Genre: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) newspaper of the coffee house |
Record ID: | 1086 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, 1 August 2006), 26 October 1752, Trial of Alexander Bourk (t17521026-30), |
Citation: | Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, 1 August 2006), 26 October 1752, Trial of Alexander Bourk (t17521026-30), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1086, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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