Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… set the rumor mills of London to churn more heavily and has led contemporaries as well as historians to difficulties teasing apart legends from facts. The first of these notorious societies congregated around Philip Wharton, the first … reliable than Walpole’s is that none of the other friars refuted his claims, and that he was called ‘a false monk’ instead. Moreover, his letter was later reprinted in Edward Thompson’s The Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions of Paul …
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