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[David Price]

The Infamous Life of John Church, by Anonymous                           58019
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/8/0/1/58019 ]
   [Files: 58019-0.txt; 58019-h.htm]



For those wishing to know: this is one of Hay and Turner's pamphlets 
(published 1817) against John Church (c1780-1826?).  No doubt published at 
the trial of John Church (for molesting a young man in London), it somehow 
pieced together much of his life (at this stage unpublished) and brought 
together a large number of cases against Church.  It starts with his being 
being found as an abandoned baby, quickly adds that he was turned out of 
the Foundling Hospital as "he was addicted to improper and disgusting 
practices", his connection with the male brothel in Vere Street, his love 
letters to a young man in London Borough, the sexual assaults at Banbury, 
then Ipswich,