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[David Price]

The Trial and Conviction of John Church, by A Barrister                  58020
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For those wishing to know: an account, taken in short hand, of the 1817 
trial of John Church the famous preacher, for sexual assault on Adam 
Foreman, then 18 years old.  The trial was a sensation not only given the 
allegations but that a minister of religion, and a very well known one at 
that, was involved.  It was accompanied by mobs in the streets, Church 
being burn in effergy etc.  John Church later apparently claimed this 
wasn't a true account of the trial, but the outcome (Church found guilty) 
was certainly the case.

All the best,
David,
Overcast England