Event Comment: Newdigate newsletters, 2 Sept. 1693: On Thursday a person acting ye
Jack pudding on a stage in
Bartholomew fair Bantering upon ye
Straits Expedition & return of the ff
leet was taken into Custody (
Folger Shakespeare Library, transcribed by
Professor John Harold Wilson).
Luttrell,
A Brief Relation, III, 176, 2 Sept. 1693: A merry andrew in Bartholomew fair is committed for telling the mobb news that our f
leet was come into
Torbay, being forced in by some
French privateers, and other words reflecting on the conduct of great ministers of state.
Newdigate newsletters, 12 Sept. 1693: On Sunday [10 Sept.]
Mr Percivall who kept a Booth during
St Barthollomew fair was siezed near
Charing cross upon ye acct of clipping being discovered by a young man (
Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 82). [See also
Luttrell,
A Brief Relation, III, 183, 205, 207, 212.