[posted] Posted(#58020, Church)

The Trial and Conviction of John Church, by A Barrister 58020 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/8/0/2/58020 ] [Files: 58020-0.txt; 58020-h.htm] 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