Religion & Morality Vindicated, Against Hypocrisy and Pollution: Or, an Account of the Life and Character of John Church the Obelisk Preacher, Who Was Formerly a Frequenter of Vere-street, and Who Has Been Charged With Unnatural Practices in Various Places. To Which Is Annexed, a Fac-simile of a Letter, Written by Him to James Cook, Who Kept the Infamous House in Vere-street. — John Shaqi
Religion & Morality Vindicated, Against Hypocrisy and Pollution: Or, an Account of the Life and Character of John Church the Obelisk Preacher, Who Was Formerly a Frequenter of Vere-street, and Who Has Been Charged With Unnatural Practices in Various Places. To Which Is Annexed, a Fac-simile of a Letter, Written by Him to James Cook, Who Kept the Infamous House in Vere-street.Bell, Robert
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Religion & Morality Vindicated, Against Hypocrisy and Pollution: Or, an Account of the Life and Character of John Church the Obelisk Preacher, Who Was Formerly a Frequenter of Vere-street, and Who Has Been Charged With Unnatural Practices in Various Places. To Which Is Annexed, a Fac-simile of a Letter, Written by Him to James Cook, Who Kept the Infamous House in Vere-street.
Bell, Robert
Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England
driven out from thence, by the trustees of the chapel, in which he
preached, and ordered never to shew his face there again. He hastily
decamped, leaving behind him his wife and children, and the police
officers having been sent in pursuit of him, their searches proved
fruitless, and it was a long time before he was heard of. He once
more retired into the country, but was called from his solitude to
use his influence in town, by a man of his own disgraceful kind named
_Kitty Cambric_, and well known in Vere-street. It is proper to
observe here, that some of these wretches assume the names of women,
and that they are absolutely married together, as will be shewn
presently from Church’s having been the parson who performed the
blasphemous mock ceremony of joining them in the ties of “_Holy
Matrimony_.” He now settled himself at Chapel Court in the Borough,
when his old Garrett publicly charged him with a wicked and
diabolical offence as the law says, “not to be named amongst
Christians,” and he was obliged to run away from this accusation. By
some fortuitous event he at length got possession of the Obelisk
Chapel, where he began to deliver his doctrines to those who were
foolish and ignorant enough to attend to his fulsome and incoherent
exclamations. Several young men, whose names we are in possession
of, and who were accustomed to hear him, were obliged to leave him in
consequence of his having used them in a manner too indecent to be
mentioned or hinted at. Mr. E— B— has informed the writer of the
present article, that this parson—or rather this monster—when he was
about to preach, would frequently say,—“Well, I am going to tip ’em a
gammoning story, my old women would believe the moon to be made of
green cheese, if I was to tell them so; and I must tell them
something.”—The writer has also been informed, from credible
authority, that Church was a constant attendant in Vere-street, and
that the gang of miscreants who met at the public-house there, some
of whom stood in the pillory about two years and a half since, had
nominated him to be their _Chaplain_; and that he officiated in that
capacity. By virtue of his functions, in this situation he was often
employed in joining these monsters in the “indissoluble tie of
matrimony!!!” They were absolutely wedded together. One evening,
when Church visited this infamous place of resort, one of the gang
observed, “Here is Parson Church. Aye, Parson, how d’ye do? Have
you come to see our chapel?”—Church replied, “Yes, and to preach
too.”
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