> The primary complaint seems to have been that Walker was running it both as a beerhouse & a brothel… When the police raided it, they found 16 women dancing to the 'music of 2 fiddles' with a number of local 'bad characters' >
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(Of course, we need to be careful of accepting William Brown's portrait of the town too -- he saw immorality everywhere, and seems to have had a particular dislike of Jews, Irish people, and women (so little empathy on display in his reporting...))
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Indeed but it does give some alternative material to work with although filtered through a prism. I remember being told about the importance of Inquisition documents (when published by the Vatican archives) for giving very detailed accounts of people's day to day lives.
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Exactly :)
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