Citation - Boston News Letter: 1728.08.22

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Index Entry Psalms, sung in London by imprisoned thieves to drunken tunes 
Location London 
Citation
BNL.728.023
15-22 Aug 1728:11 (86)
From the London Evening Post May 11.  London, May 11.  The
street robbers under sentence of death in Newgate, behave in
the most rude and audacious manner, uttering the most
execrable oaths, and impiously singing the Psalms to drunken
tunes, and cursing their keepers for not carrying them
oftener to the chapel.


Generic Title Boston News Letter 
Date 1728.08.22 
Publisher Green, B. 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1728 
Bibliography B0008113
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