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
O for submission, but I
am distressed; woe is me. O that I had never, never known you, then
I should never feel what I do; but I thank you for your company
hitherto, I have enjoyed it four months exactly, but this is over for
ever; miserable as I am, I wish you well for ever, for ever. I write
in the bitterness of my soul which I feel. May you never be cursed
with the feelings I possess as long as you live. What a day I have
before me; I cannot go out of my house till Sunday morning. How can
I conceal my grief from my dear wife? how shall I hide it? what shall
I say? I am miserable, nor can I surmount the shock at all. I have
no friend to pour out my sorrows to now, I wish I had; I am sorry you
are so easily duped by any to answer their purposes; my paper is
full, my heart is worse; God help me; Lord God Support me! what shall
I do, dear God! O Lord! have mercy on me, I must close; this comes
from your ever loving, but distressed
J. CHURCH.
* * * * *
ANOTHER FACT.—It appears from the testimony of George Turner, and James
Russell, of Redcross-street, of Richard Jessop, of Cattle-street, and
William Williams of the Mint; that the _Revd. John Church_, on the 16th
of November, 1809, attended at the funeral of Richard Oakden, a clerk in
the Bank, who was executed before Newgate on the 15th for a certain
horrible crime. The hearse and coach set out from the Hat and Feathers
public-house, kept by a Mr. Richardson in Gravel-lane, to which place
Church and his company returned to partake of a jovial dinner. In the
course of the evening the latter behaved with great indecency.
The following bad character has also been given of Church, by Mr. George
Gee and his wife, who keep a cake shop in the New Cut. I have heard them
both declare it to be true:
“Mr. Church the Minister lodged at our house a year and a half, and
left last year at Lady-day.”
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