Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:33:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rolande Duprey <roboladupe-AT-yahoo.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] The Proceedings of the Old Bailey On-Line


 To all the Puppet History buffs out there:
Don't know if anyone has already discovered it, but it's a great site for eighteenth century British historians of the "non-elite" populations:
ww.oldbaileyonline.org

I searched the word "puppet" and got 10 references, one of which was the trial of Ann Kendall, a woman who had "kept a puppet show".
The key passage is below.


Bravo to the guys who put all this on line for the world to see. 

Rolande Duprey


 Tame's Defence.         The first time I became acquainted with this woman (meaning the prisoner Kendall) was, I was travelling into Gloucestershire, and came to a place call'd Cheltenham; there I met with this woman, I told her I could knit; she took me to her house to knit for her, her husband was a bricklayer by trade: while I was knitting for her, she bid me tell her husband that I was her brother's child, which I did; she kept a puppet-show, and I travelled with her with the show to a great many places; she can't say that I ever wrong'd her of a farthing, there she is, if she can, let her speak it. We came up to London, and I went to the prosecutor's house, and was hired to be his servant, and was there three weeks this last time, I was with him before; while I was there, he bought me two shifts and was kind to me; this woman came and persuaded me to come away; she came persuading me for three Sundays together; at last, I said I would come away; I ask'd her what she
 would have me to do? saying, my master has bought me two shifts, and they were very kind to me; she said take all you can, for you know you must never see their faces more, nor your own country neither; I said, what must I take? and said there was some money in the kitchen; she said, take all you can, but be sure take nothing that is mark'd.




 
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