Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… seat in West Wycombe, before relocating to a repurposed abbey in Medmenham. It is unclear to what extent mock-religious rituals occurred at Medmenham. 15 While it is said that Dashwood developed ‘an acute antipathy towards the Roman … that they were prayer books or collections of sermons’ (124f). However, no evidence exists for alleged Satanic rituals or Devil-worship, the rumors of which became ever more extreme in the nineteenth century. These rumors have grown …
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