Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… Tu, the Bugles, or the Damned Crew, a group of ‘gentlemen’ called the Mohocks was rumored to have terrorized London’s streets in the Spring of 1712. While little evidence exists for the Mohocks being an organized group with a shared motif … upper-class band of marauding rakes, anecdotally described as ‘Peers and Persons of Quality’, 8 who caroused in the streets of London, assailing innocent passers-by at random between March and April of 1712. The Spectator called them a … asocial behavior, the question of their existence is far from settled. As a gang of rakes supposedly carousing in the streets of London, they fit into an enduring tradition such as the Tityre Tu, the Bugles, the Hectors, and the Damned …
Clans | Gentleman | Masculinity | Rake | Violence
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