Transcribed from the [1817] T. Kaygill edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to the Bodleian for allowing their copy to be consulted in this transcription.
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THE
DEVIL
AND
PARSON CHURCH;
OR,
BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
A WHIMSICAL AND SATIRICAL POETIC EFFUSION,
Illustrative of a
DARK TRANSACTION,
Lately brought to Light;
IN WHICH, A WELL KNOWN
POPULAR PREACHER
WAS A
Principal Performer,
WITH INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
“We’ll have thee—
Painted upon a pole, and under written,
Here you may see the Monster.”Altered from Shakspeare.
London:
Printed by T. Kaygill, 36, Frith-Street, Soho;
And Published by Kaygill, 12, Benjamin-Street,
Clerkenwell.
May be had of all Booksellers.
Price 2d.
THE hero of the subjoined poem, has for many years been suspected of being guilty of the most abominable and atrocious practices; his intimacy with the Vere Street nest of miscreants is too well known to be again repeated, as are also his detestable letters, sent to men, to entice them to participate in his guilt. At the Middlesex Sessions, July 12, 1813, he was tried for an attempt on William Webster, but acquitted; from which time, he has been considered innocent by his misled followers. But on the 26th of September, 1816, he made an assault on Adam Foreman, (apprentice to Mr. Patrick, potter, Vauxhall,) with an intent to commit a vile act; for which attempt, by the laudable exertions of the lad’s father, and Mr. Patrick, he was indicted at the Surrey Assizes, Croydon, on Saturday, Aug. 16th, 1817, and found guilty; he will be brought up the first day of next Term to receive judgement, in The Court of King’s Bench. Mr. Gurney undertook his cause with reluctance.