Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… violent generation of rakes, Hell-fire Clubs operated with more sophistication and sought to remove themselves from the public eye rather than carouse in the streets – a withdrawal that only set the rumor mills of London to churn more … February 20 th 1720, which ‘describes two clubs, the Bold Bucks and the Hell-Fires’ (Lord 52). Yet matters became truly public only after King George I issued a proclamation seeking to combat ‘impious Tenets and Doctrines’ which had been … Sedition, or breaking the Peace, to take a Blaspheming Hell-Fire Club Man by the Throat’. 5 On May 13 th , the same publication insisted that members of such clubs ‘do not merit the Title of Men, but should be used like Brutes’. 6 …
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