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BG.721.008
10-17 Jul 1721:21 (85)
London, May 1. . . We are informed the above said club
[Hell-Fire], consisted of about 40 persons of both sexes, 15
of them are said to be ladies of considerable quality, their
chief places of rendezvous was sometimes at Somerset-House,
at a house in Westminster, and another house in Conduit-
Street, near [ ]; the purpose of their meetings were to
ridicule in the most audacious manner, the person and power
of almighty God, . . . [6 lines] It is to be feared that
four of these daring insects were cut off by the hand of
divine justice, in the midst of their impieties ; two of
them in a debauch in Somerset-House, on the Lord's Day,
caused musick to be plaid in the time of Divine Service ;
the one who toasted such a blasphemous health as was
certainly never heard of before, in any age or nation, died
same evening ; and the other in a few days after. A young
lady who, as 'tis said, called her self the B----d Virgin,
died, after a short indisposition, in the flower of her
youth and beauty; and the other woman of distinction, who
died suddenly at her dinner.
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