The Secret History of the Hell-Fire Clubs by Geoffrey Ashe

Author:Geoffrey Ashe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Secret/Societies
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2019-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

WOMEN OF THE ABBEY

The wenching is the part of their revelry that is least in dispute, and yet, in a way, it remains the most mysterious. Of course there was nothing novel in a piquant association of sex with monastic forms and ceremonies. The Duc de Richelieu (that recurrent example) had pictures painted of three of his mistresses in religious habits, and sometimes met them dressed as a monk himself. Sir Francis’s two “Franciscan” portraits repeat that motif. At Medmenham the orgy partners presented themselves in some sort of religious costume, though they did not keep it on all the evening. In a poem by Charles Churchill, who was there, is the couplet:

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