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
“Sundays and working days were all alike to them, for they would send
out to buy liquors, and whatever else they wanted, on Sundays as well
as other days.
“The house would be frequently more like a playhouse (I might say a
bawdy house) than a minister’s house, were a set of young people
would come and behave more indecently than ought to be mentioned.
Even one Sunday morning they made such an uproar as that they broke
one of the windows, after that they would go with him to his chapel,
and, after that, he would give the sacrament to such disorderly
people, let their characters be ever so loose.
“He was always ready to go fast enough out to dinner or supper where
he could get good eating and drinking, but poor people might send to
him from their sick bed times and times before he would come to them.
Seeing so much of his inconsistencies and shocking filthiness in
their rooms, (though they always paid their rent,) we were determined
to give them warning to quit our house, and we do not think that a
worse man or woman ever came into any house before, especially as Mr.
Church pretended to preach the gospel; such hypocrites are much worse
than others, and, besides this, we never heard a man tell lies so
fast in all our lives. It is a great grief to us that ever we went
to hear him preach, or suffered him to stop so long in our house.”
GEORGE AND FRANCES GEE.
It appears from the testimony of George Tarrier, and James Russell, of
Redcross-street; of Richard Jessop, of Castle-street; and William
Williams of the Mint; that the _Rev. John Church_, on the 16th of
November, 1809, also attended at the funeral of Richard Oakden, a clerk
in the Bank, who was hung before Newgate, for an abominable offence, on
14th November, 1809. This _pious_ minister and his partizans returned to
the Hat and Feathers, Gravel-lane, kept by a Mr. Richardson, where the
funeral set out from, to partake of a jovial dinner. His conduct here,
it seems, was beyond description.
It is averred, that his wife, upon hearing the infamy of his conduct took
to drinking, to avoid reflection, which soon occasioned her death. But,
within the last three months since, he has been charged with the above
detestable offence, in order (we presume under the mask of hypocrisy,) to
rescue, in some degree, his character from the public odium with which it
had been marked, he has been induced to marry a respectable woman, who
kept a seminary for young ladies at Hammersmith. The verdict of “Guilty”
had been scarcely pronounced, when the relatives of the children, with
the greatest promptitude possible, took them all away from the said
school.
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