WXDA Record #1119
No title.
31 August 1801
Summary
"Friday a tall Drummer belonging to the first Nottingham Regiment, dressed in woman's cloaths, and a short woman attired in a complete dress of a Drummer, were brought to the Office, Hatton-Garden, for being the means of collecting near a thousand people about them by their indecent behaviour on Thursday night, in Gray's Inn Lane. The Magistrate ordered them to the House of Correction for one month each, but the real Drummer to be delivered by his Officer when he claims him, to undergo Court-Martial investigation for such behaviour."
Full Title
31 Aug 1801. No title. Times p. 3 c. C.
Publication
Times of London(Times)
Full Record
- Date
- 31 August 1801
- Provisional Category
- Practical Joker
- Locations
- Gray's Inn LaneView on map
- Primary source topic
- Dressed as a man; Dressed as a woman; Criminalized cross-dressing
- Item format
- News report; Anecdote
- Motive
- Jest
- Discovery of cross-dressing
- Circumstance
- Attire
- Female garb; Drummer clothes
- Social rank
- Lower class
- Stated Motive (Protagonist)
- No
- Venue
- Hatten-Garden
- Report Scope
- Central
- Alternate Names / Titles
- News in Brief.