26 July 1699: Doncaster magistrates hear how Dr. Greene, a mountebank, assaulted those who sought to cancel his show
John Edward Jackson. 1855. The History and Description of St. George’s Church at Doncaster, Destroyed by Fire February 28, 1853. London: J.B. Nichols and Sons. Get it:
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Amongst some old magisterial proceedings of July 26, 1699, at Doncaster, we meet with informations laid before Peter Hudson, the Mayor, against one “Doctor Greene,” his servants, and Philip and Wm. Bassett, for assaults committed by them in some defence of their exhibitions. John Barnes deposed that Edw. Greene came forth with his hanger, and “swore and dambde that he would strike the first man,” etc. Another received several blows with a spade; and a third swore that “the doctor, in violent language, declared that he would go upon the stage, whether the Mayor would let him or not.”
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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John Hobson’s editor supposes that this is the mountebank Dr. Green whose death his diarist reported on 22 March 1729 (Hobson 1877).
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Amongst some old magisterial proceedings of July 26, 1699, at Doncaster, we meet with informations laid before Peter Hudson, the Mayor, against one “Doctor Greene,” his servants, and Philip and Wm. Bassett, for assaults committed by them in some defence of their exhibitions. John Barnes deposed that Edw. Greene came forth with his hanger, and “swore and dambde that he would strike the first man,” etc. Another received several blows with a spade; and a third swore that “the doctor, in violent language, declared that he would go upon the stage, whether the Mayor would let him or not.”
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