The Rod in Pickle; or, An Answer to the Appeal of John Church, the Obelisk Preacher: Containing an Authentic Narrative of the Cause of His Leaving Banbury, in Oxfordshire: Together With the Charges Exhibited Against Him, the Meeting of His Friends in Consequence of Those Charges, and the Result of That Meeting. To Which Are Added, His Letters, Written to the Managers of the Banbury Meeting-House, Begging Them Not to Let the Cause of His Dismissal Be Known in London. — John Shaqi
The Rod in Pickle; or, An Answer to the Appeal of John Church, the Obelisk Preacher: Containing an Authentic Narrative of the Cause of His Leaving Banbury, in Oxfordshire: Together With the Charges Exhibited Against Him, the Meeting of His Friends in Consequence of Those Charges, and the Result of That Meeting. To Which Are Added, His Letters, Written to the Managers of the Banbury Meeting-House, Begging Them Not to Let the Cause of His Dismissal Be Known in London.Latham, T.
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The Rod in Pickle; or, An Answer to the Appeal of John Church, the Obelisk Preacher: Containing an Authentic Narrative of the Cause of His Leaving Banbury, in Oxfordshire: Together With the Charges Exhibited Against Him, the Meeting of His Friends in Consequence of Those Charges, and the Result of That Meeting. To Which Are Added, His Letters, Written to the Managers of the Banbury Meeting-House, Begging Them Not to Let the Cause of His Dismissal Be Known in London.
Latham, T.
Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England
The last letter Mr. Church wrote to Banbury, from Birmingham, was to
arrange some matters about his family following him up to London; and
appears to have been written in great hurry and confusion. I have made
but one extract from that, which is as follows:—He says to Mr. T.
Gardenner, to whom he wrote, “They have been, (alluding, I suppose, to
some persons from Kingham, having been at Warwick) and brought the
accounts hither, and have set all the people in such confusion about me,
so that a dear _friend of mine_, _who was apprehensive_ for my personal
safety, set off from thence, late as it was, and arrived here
(Birmingham) at a very late hour, and his coming has thrown the whole
family where I am into such confusion and disorder, that it was judged
prudent for me to leave the town immediately, which I shall do
accordingly, without delay. Look after my wife and the dear children,
send her up by the first coach to London; she knows where to find me in
town.”
I shall now give some account of the proceedings of the people at
Banbury, as to drawing up the statement to be sent up to London, and the
reason why it was kept back, after it was drawn up and written out by me,
at the request of the people there. In the first place, every letter was
copied verbatim, in the regular order in which they had passed between
Mr. Church and them. To these was annexed a preliminary address, in the
name of the principals of the congregation; the particulars already
mentioned were stated, the various charges alledged, and then the
conclusion they drew from the whole, which was couched in the following
terms:—“We do not pretend to charge Mr. Church with having actually, and
in the full extent of the thing, been guilty of the odious offence laid
to his charge; but from the whole tenure of his conduct, his letters, and
the various things that appear in evidence, we are constrained to
believe, that he has discovered a most detestable propensity that way;
and if what you receive in these documents are not sufficient proof to
you of the same; if you choose to be at the expense of it, we can send
you up a whole coach load of living witnesses to the same facts.”—Thus
far the business had proceeded: all the papers were drawn up in order,
and it only remained for them to be properly signed by the parties who
were principally concerned in the investigation, particularly by the
deacons of the church; in order to this they were read at a meeting of
those parties, and generally approved. Messrs. J. and T. Gardenners,
actually and readily signed their names to them; but Mr. Lambart, the
acting deacon, positively refused to give his signature, and without it
they could not be properly considered as the Churches act. At this, the
other parties were very much displeased, but could not prevail on Mr.
Lambart, by any means, to sign his name. The reason he alledged for not
doing it was this, Mr. Church was indebted to him sixteen or seventeen
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