The Phœnix of Sodom; or, the Vere Street Coterie: Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Embellished and Improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodomitical Practices, by the Members of the Vere Street Coterie, of Detestable Memory.Holloway, Robert
History
The Phœnix of Sodom; or, the Vere Street Coterie: Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Embellished and Improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodomitical Practices, by the Members of the Vere Street Coterie, of Detestable Memory.
Holloway, Robert
Trials (Sodomy) -- England
The reader will recollect that Cook had been desirous of making a
disclosure of the transactions for which he, and the others were
convicted, with the names and rank in life of a great number of persons
implicated; not only at his own house, but at many others, both private
and public, the common depots of organized Sodomites; and having been
defeated of this intention at the Secretary of State’s office, published
the following Prospectus, in the form of a handbill, and distributed them
among his customers, both noble and ignoble.
_Handbill_.
“Preparing for the Press, and speedily will be published,
“An exhibition of the gambols practised by the ancient lechers of
Sodom and Gomorrah; embellished and improved with the modern
refinements in Sodomitical practices, by the Members of the
Vere-street Coterie of detestable memory.
“The facts in this publication are given and substantiated on oath,
without regard to the rank or situation in life of the several actors
in this diabolical drama. Peers, Footmen, and Foot-soldiers, will be
held up to the indignation of mankind (aye and womankind to) in the
several characters they acted, the hediousness of whose transactions
petrify the reader.
“James Cook, the author of this pamphlet, with shame, confesses that
he was an eye and ear witness to the execrable scenes of iniquity he
relates, and, but for the damning proofs that put to confusion every
attempt at contradiction, he would despair of gaining credit for an
hundredth part of the odious tale he has to unfold. He is now in
Newgate, undergoing a punishment for keeping the rendezvous of the
miscreants; a punishment which ought, in strict justice, to have
fallen to the lot of the characters whose infamy will shortly come
under the cognizance of the public.
“N.B. It is said that the ghost of White, the drummer boy, lately
executed for Sodomy, pays his nocturnal visits to old Moggy, the
rump-rider, Park-street, exclaiming,
“Monster! amidst the din of infernal howl
The fiends in hell will scramble for thy soul.”
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