Georgian Entertainment

12/07/1796

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A Peterborough Playbill give us another glimpse of life in Georgian Peterborough. It tells us that:

This present TUESDAY Evening JULY the 12th, 1796, will be presented a COMEDY called 'The SCHOOL for SCANDAL'. To which will be added a FARCE 'The ENCHANTED ISLAND' Or Free-born ENGLISHWOMAN. The whole concludes with an ELEGANT, GRAND, TRANSPARENT PAINTING of THE TEMPLE OF LOVE, Designed and Painted by an eminent Artist.

It tells interested parties that this week's schedule is for performances on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. I just wonder what was planned to happen on the Thursday. (Tebbs, H.F., Peterborough, Oleander Press, 1979)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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Consecrated Dove

26/04/1601

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Today saw the consecration of Bishop Thomas Dove - the 5th Bishop of Peterborough. His account book records that: 'I was consecrated at Lambeth by the L. Archbyshop. 4 other byshops vs. London, Winton [Winchester], Ely, Chichester laying on theyr hands'. He adds that '£13 9s was paid out for yr dinner'. Dove was a noted preacher and, at some date before this, sufficiently impressed Queen Elizabeth I for her to remark that she 'thought that the Holy Ghost was descended again in this Dove'. (Carnell, Geoffrey, The Bishops of Peterborough, RJL Smith & Associates, 1993)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.