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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

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Bell, Robert

Bell, Robert

Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England

To Mr. R. Bell the Editor and Proprietor and also—to Mr. Robt
    Barber—the Printer, of a Certain Weekly Publication or Newspaper
    Calld the Weekly Dispatch and to all others whom It doth shall or may
    Concern.

    My name appearing In some of the Above-named Newspapers and In other
    Publication Issued by Some of you or by your Directions I do
    hereby—give you and Each of you, Notice from, henceforth to Desist
    from the further Printing or Circulation—of Such Papers and that In
    Case My Name, or any (thing) Respecting (me) or Tending, to Inflame
    the Public Mind against me, Shall appear In any future Publications
    Sanctioned or Authorisd by you or Under you Direction’s I shall
    Commence Such Legal measures, against you for the Same As the Law
    Enable Me and Counsel shall advise and I Do hereby—give you and Each
    of you further Notice that (as) I am about to Commence—and acxtion
    against you for the Publication above alluded to, that you do not
    Part with or alter, or In any manner mutilate the manuscripts from
    which Publications were Printed.

                                                                 Date—this
                                                                 30 Day of
                                                                April 1813
                                                              John Church.

This precious composition (no attorney could write any thing like it)
bears the real signature of John Church which exactly resembles that of
the letter he wrote to Cook of Vere-street.  I now then call on him to
put his threat into execution; I call on him to bring his action against
me; and he may depend on it, I shall be prepared with my _proofs_ and my
JUSTIFICATION.  I repeat what I said in my last, that I bear this man no
resentment of a personal nature, I can have none towards one I never
spoke to, and never saw but once, and then in his pulpit.  My sole object
is to do that which the civil power seems unable to do—to prevent one of
the most horrid of vices, from being propagated through the medium of
pretended sanctity.  The person of whom I am speaking, has called at my
office, and expressed a wish to see me (_this was very like bringing an
action_!) fortunately I was not there at the time; and I now desire that
neither he nor any of his associates may call on me, for I will speak
with none of them except in a Court of Law.

                                * * * * *

                 _To the Editor of the Weekly Dispatch_.

                                                     Banbury, May 5, 1813.

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