

Transcribed from the 1813 J. Cook edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

                   [Picture: Public domain book cover]





                                   THE
                             PHŒNIX OF SODOM,
                                  OR THE
                          _Vere Street Coterie_.


                                * * * * *

                           BEING AN EXHIBITION
                                  OF THE
                            GAMBOLS PRACTISED
                                  BY THE
                             Ancient Lechers
                                    OF
                          _Sodom and Gomorrah_,
                    EMBELLISHED AND IMPROVED WITH THE
                            MODERN REFINEMENTS
                                    IN
                          Sodomitical Practices,

                          BY THE MEMBERS OF THE
              _Vere Street Coterie_, _of detestable memory_.

                                * * * * *

SOLD BY J. COOK, AT
AND TO BE HAD OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS.

                                  1813.

            HOLLOWAY, PRINTER, ARTILLERY LANE, TOOLEY STREET.

                                * * * * *




THE
VERE STREET COTERIE,
OR
_The Phœnix of Sodom_.


I THINK it a duty I owe both the reader and myself, to account for my
acquaintance with any part of the disgraceful transactions disclosed in
the annexed pages.

Some months ago, when I was contemplating the most odious characters on
the list of Attorneys, to compose the Fifth Number of my Strictures on
the Practice of those voracious vultures, it came to my knowledge that an
Attorney named Wooley (with that alacrity with which crows fly to
carrion) had repaired to the different prisons, where those wretches
apprehended in Vere Street were committed, and, under pretence of
assisting the offenders obtaining their liberty, and enabling them to
escape justice, stripped them of every guinea they possessed, and,
indeed, of every article that would produce one at a pawnbroker’s.  I
therefore sent to Newgate, to learn from Cook, the landlord of the house,
whether my information was correct; who sent his wife to me, and related
a long history of the means and fallacious pretences by which he obtained
above thirty pounds from her, for the purpose of _bringing her husband
through_; that being the phrase of those fellows, who hang about prisons,
to tutor their new clients:—(_I have made use of the expression_ TUTOR,
_because there are degrees of iniquity_, _that the most atrocious
offenders accustomed to a long residence in the cells of Newgate have yet
to learn of a certain description of attorneys_;) in fine, after he had
exhausted every stratagem that his colleague