The Trial and Conviction of That Infamous Hypocrite John Church: The Surrey Tabernacle Preacher, Borough-road, St. George's Fields, for an Abominable Offence; Including the Whole of the Evidence; Tried Before Lord Ellenborough, at the Surrey Assizes, Croydon, Saturday, August 16, 1817. To Which Is Added, His Life, Confessions, Notes of One of His Sermons, the Whole of the Love-letters, &c. &c.Anonymous
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The Trial and Conviction of That Infamous Hypocrite John Church: The Surrey Tabernacle Preacher, Borough-road, St. George's Fields, for an Abominable Offence; Including the Whole of the Evidence; Tried Before Lord Ellenborough, at the Surrey Assizes, Croydon, Saturday, August 16, 1817. To Which Is Added, His Life, Confessions, Notes of One of His Sermons, the Whole of the Love-letters, &c. &c.
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Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England
any thing of it he did not think it necessary to have them face to face.
Never spoke to the boy. Never asked the boy about this transaction. Mr.
Patrick never gave any opinion whether Mr. Church was implicated in the
transaction; but in answer to a particular part of the transaction, he
said that Mr. Church asserted that it was false. Did not see the letter
sent to Mrs. Hunter; about the three points of the boy’s statement which
Mr. Church said he was able to contradict.
Mr. JAMES REEVES _sworn_.
_Examined by the Common Sergeant_. Was the Clerk attending the
magistrate when the charge was made before him; must refer to the
book—Witness produced a book to tell who was the magistrate; it was the
minute book in which the entered the proceedings of the day. Mr.
Serjeant Sellon appeared to have been the Magistrate on the 19th
November, as it appears by the book. Being a charge misdemeanor no
account was committed to writing of what the witnesses said; it was
merely a note or entry of the names, as follows; “Warrant for a
misdeameanor, parties appeared by the Officer, and ordered to find bail.”
_Cross-examined by Mr. Marryatt_.—Mr. Serjeant Sellon was the magistrate
by whom the warrant was granted. The oath was administered before the
warrant was granted; there had been an _ex-parte_ examination to grant
the warrant on the oath of the party;—that is in another book left
behind; does not know any thing of it. There is a deposition on oath
prior to the granting of the warrant.
_Re-examined by the Common Serjeant_.—Don’t take the depositions in cases
of misdemeanor in detail. Is not aware of depositions taken in writing
in any book which he had not here; was not told to bring it. There was
nothing taken down in writing before the warrant was granted. After the
warrant was executed, and at the time of the examination, when the
Defendant was there, witness took no minutes further than the names of
the parties, and what he now produced.
Mr. WOOD _sworn_.
_Examined by Mr. Gurney_.—Was present at the examination of Mr. Church
before the magistrate; is a hatter, near the Elephant and Castle, in St.
George’s Fields; did not take the testimony of witnesses down in writing.
Foreman, the boy, in the account he gave before the magistrate, said he
went out to the potter and told the potter that there were thieves in the
house, and that the potter and he said the came to search the house. He
was asked a question by Mr. Sellon, whether or not he searched the room
where Mr. Church slept. He said, no, he did not search that room. Mr.
Sellon said, “Why not search the room?” The answer he gave was, that the
potter wished to break the door open. Mr. Sellon said, “Did you try the
door, to see whether it was open, before the potter talked of breaking it
open?” He said, no; he did not wish to disturb his mistress.
_Mr. Gurney_.—My lord, this is the case of the Defendant.
_Mr. Marryatt_ then replied to the Defendant’s case.
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