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Content: Enlarge back for blurb Chapter Titles 1. Queen James and HIs Courtiers 2. The Birth of the Subculture 3. Mother Clap's Molly House 4. The Sodomites' Walk in Moorfields 5. Maiden Names and Little Sports 6. Caterwauling 7. Popular Rage 8. Blackmail 9. The Third Sex 10. The Warden of Wadham 11. The Vere Street Coterie 12. A Child of Peculiar Providence 13. Men of Rank and Fortune 14. Tommies and the Game of Flats 15. From Twickenham to Turkey Background / Biography: Rictor Norton is a social and literary historian and writer, specialising in gay history, born 25 June 1945. rictornorton.co.uk Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"By the early eighteenth century, a path in the Upper-Moorfields, by the side of the Wall that spearated the Upper-field from the Middle-field, acquired the name 'The Sodomites' Walk'. This path survives today as the south side of Finsbury Square, the square itself being the only open area left from the original fields, though underneath it is a car park. It was along this path that William Brown in 1726 had his privates grabbed by Thomas Newton acting as an agent provocateur; Brown was subsequently pilloried in Moorfields. Moorfields was identified as a molly Market in the London Journal editorial, and was obviously well known to all - Richard Rustead, the extortioner, was recognised by a serving-boy in 1724 as a frequent user of 'the Sodomites' Walk in Moorfields', and he and his accomplice Goddard were captured by Constable Richard Bailey at the Farthing Pye-House near Moorfields. At another alehouse in Moorfields - the Green Dragon - Henry Clayton caused an uproar in 1727 by publicly calling Thomas Rodin a molly and a sodomite; Rodin was acquitted due to lack of evidence and produced the counter-claim that Clayton was a pimp whose whore had once been abused by Rodin. In another ambiguous case, in 1722, he brought Rodin to court in charges of having raped a man (unknown) in October 1722 at the home of Peter Wright the shoemaker, at the Three Shoes next door to Harrow tavern in Long-Alley, Moorfields (now Appold Street). Whatever the facts of the matter, the incident the flavour of the area." p77, reference omitted Secondhand booksellers |
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