Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… behavior. Contrary to their predecessors, however, who belonged to a more 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 … however, that he earned himself the nickname ‘Jeremy Twitcher’, linking him to a character from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728). 20 20 . Town and Country Magazine, November 1769, pp. 561-562. The meetings of the Brotherhood continued …
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