Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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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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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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