High and Low Water Bell
Past productions
A play by unknown
‘High and low water bell, or, The ebb and flow of fortune’ (‘High and low water bell, or, The panther
of the seas and the ebb and flood of fortune’), drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 September for
performance at the Victoria 17 September 1855. Request for licence written and signed by Joseph
Towers. Written on several different types of paper. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the
stipulation that the execution scene at the end of the play be entirely omitted. Keywords: London,
eighteenth-century settings, nautical interest, working class characters, crime, murder, execution.
ff. 103.
