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trial of John Church (for molesting a young man in London), it somehow pieced together much of his life (at this stage unpublished) and brought together a large number of cases against Church.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,
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