I was inspired by those flagellant processions during the bubonic plague.
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Weil was a specimen, for her, of a fascinating species: the raving writer, the flagellant writer, the writer impaled on ruthless principle.
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He was a type of painless flagellant in the realm of language and song-rage: even though on the necromantic face of Lazarus he is posed in a style drawn from the files of that notorious old antic Dean of St. Paul's ….
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In November 1815 the "most infamous Regency flagellant" (this being an age that offered competition for such a title), an MP named Sir Eyre Coote, entered Christ's Hospital mathematical school, sent away the younger boys and paid the older ones for a bout of mutual flogging.
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File:Crucified apostle in Pampanga.jpg File:Drenched.jpg File:Nailed.jpg File:Striding flagellant.
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It is named for San Bevignate, the local patron saint of the flagellant movement.
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Flagellant orders like Hermanos Penitentes (Spanish 'Penitential Brothers') also appeared in colonial Spanish America, even against the specific orders of Church authorities.
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237 The anthropologist Eric Dingwall wrote a chapter on Pazzi's masochism and flagellant behaviors in his book Very Peculiar People (1962).Dingwall, Eric. (1962). Very Peculiar People. University Books. pp.
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1921 illustration of female submission by Georges Topfer from Le Rêve d’un flagellant ("The dream of a flagellant"). Female submission is an activity or relationship in which a woman consents to submit to the direction of a sexual partner or allows her body to be used sexually by or for the sexual pleasure of her partner. The expression is often associated with BDSM, when the woman voluntarily and consensually submits to such activity. Submission usually involves a degree of trust by the woman in her partner.
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Accounts of the flagellant roots of the Brotherhood date back at least a thousand years to the flagellant orders in Spain and Italy. Flagellation in the Christian context refers to the Flagellation of Christ, an episode in the Passion of Christ prior to Jesus' crucifixion. The practice of mortification of the flesh for religious purposes was utilized by some Christians throughout most of Christian history, especially in Catholic monasteries and convents. In the 13th century, a group of Roman Catholics, known as the Flagellants, took this practice to its obvious ends.
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This oratory was erected in 1606 by a flagellant confraternity, and dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption. The interior is notable for life-size canvas depictions of eight saints, painted by Giuseppe Tortelli.Comune of Ostiano, History and Culture entry.
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Flagellants, from a fifteenth-century woodcut In medieval music, the Geisslerlieder, or Flagellant songs, were the songs of the wandering bands of flagellants, who overspread Europe during two periods of mass hysteria: the first during the middle of the 13th century, and the second during the Black Death in 1349. The music was simple, sung in the vernacular, often call-and- response, and closely related to folk song; indeed some of the flagellant songs survived into the 17th century as folk songs in Catholic parts of central Europe. Musically the Geisslerlied were related to the Laude spirituale: they were unaccompanied song, with instrumental accompaniment specifically forbidden.
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The massive > figure of the merciful Virgin protectively envelops the citizens of Perugia > with her outstretched mantle while the image of Death below claims the lives > of those outside the city walls. Seven years later, Bonfigli was commissioned by the flagellant confraternity of San Benedetto dia Frustati to paint a second banner when the city was free of disease. This second painting, called the Gonfalone di S. Maria Nuova, had two major purposes. The painting was carried by the flagellants during ‘crisis processionals’ whenever the city was threatened by drought, flood, siege, or pestilence. In addition, this gonfalone promoted the flagellant confraternity which was in rivalry with the city’s other confraternities.
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The disruption caused by the eruption may have influenced the onset of the Mudéjar revolt of 1264–1266 in Iberia. The Flagellant movement, which is first recorded in Italy in 1260, may have originated in the social distress caused by the effects of the eruption, though warfare and other causes probably played a more important role than natural events.
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The church was originally an oratory for a flagellant confraternity, known as the Rossi or red for the processional gowns worn by the group. The confraternity then became the Confraternita del SS. Sacramento. The 16th-century façade was restored in 2002, the roofline has statues of the Saints Bartholemew, Peter, and Paul. The interior at present is undecorated.
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From 1260 the flagellant movement, which regarded Bevignate as their patron saint, would use San Bevignate as their parish church. Along the south wall is a fresco of flagellants, one of whom is believed to depict Raniero Fasani (d. 1281), their leader. St. Bevignate was a local hermit, whose historical existence has not been established with certainty.
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As Fenley explains, the painting portrays "Christ brandishing arrows and pointing to his own wounds in reminder of the constant threat of the plague, crisis, and the eternal judgment."Fenley, p. 17. Flagellant confraternities like this one frequently reminded their citizens of the flagellation of Jesus in order to promote and strengthen their own devotion to flagellation.
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The baroque decoration included the cupola frescoes. To make space for a larger church, the older temple and the adjacent oratory of the Disciplini Bianchi (flagellant confraternity) was destroyed. The venerated processional crucifix of the order is housed in the first chapel on the right. The church houses works by Giovanni Paolo Cavagna and del Paglia.
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Spontaneously Flagellant groups arose across Northern and Central Europe in 1349, including in England. However, enthusiasm for the movement diminished as suddenly as it arose. When they preached that mere participation in their processions cleaned sins, the Pope banned the movement in January 1261. Initially the Catholic Church tolerated the Flagellants and individual monks and priests joined in the early movements.
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165px Santa Marta is a Roman Catholic church building located in the town of Lecco, region of Lombardy, Italy. A church at the site was present by the 13th century, originally dedicated to St Calimero. In 1386, it housed the flagellant Confraternity of the Disciplini of St Marta, who added a hospice and rededicated the church. The church has been refurbished over the centuries.
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Similar processions occurred across Northern Italy, with groups up to 10,000 strong processing in Modena, Bologna, Reggio and Parma. Although certain city authorities refused the Flagellant processions entry. A similar movement arose again in 1399, again in Northern Italy in the form of the White Penitents or Bianchi movement. This rising is said to have been started by a peasant who saw a vision.
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Based on the cost and subject matter, the target audience appears to have been middle- and upper-class professionals.Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books," Modernism/modernity 16.1 (2009): 96. Two of the flagellant poems were composed by Algernon Charles Swinburne, though it is unclear whether he authorized their publication.Donald Thomas, Swinburne: The Poet in His world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 216.
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A church at the site was present since 1173, known as San Michele in Cameri. Later the church was also known as the Chiesa dei Bianchi (Church of the Whites), as opposed to the Chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento (Chiesa dei Rossi). Both churches belonged to flagellant confraternities, identifiable by their respectively colored robes. This church was erected by the Confraternity of St Michael Archangel, established officially in 1565.
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The agreement on the balanced council did not end political conflicts in Speyer. The second half of the 14th century started with the destruction and expulsion of the Jewish community, epidemics and Flagellant campaigns. The following decades were characterised by the power struggle between various factions of influential Speyer families. The city was under heavy financial burdens because of various payments it had to make for its alliances.
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The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant is a 19th- century work of sado-masochistic pornography, written under the pseudonym Rosa Coote and published by William Dugdale in London in 1876. Henry Spencer Ashbee catalogues it with the comment that "the numerous flagellations, supplemented by filthy tortures, are insuperably tedious and revolting". The principal character and ostensible author Rosa Coote also appears in a series of related stories in The Pearl magazine.
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In a papal bull condemning the Flagellant movement in late 1349, Pope Clement VI criticized their "shedding the blood of Jews". Erfurt later suffered the ravages of the Black Plague, where over 16,000 residents died during a ten- week period in 1350. Massacres were generally accompanied by extensive looting. One of the items looted in the Erfurt massacre was what is now the oldest remaining manuscript of the Tosefta, which dates from the 12th century.
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1904 illustration of a medieval Spanish flagellant. Flagellation (from Latin flagellare, to whip) was quite a common practice amongst the more fervently religious throughout antiquity. Following the example of the Benedictine monk Peter Damian in the 11th century, flagellation became a form of penance in the Catholic Church and its monastic orders. The 11th-century zealot Dominicus Loricatus repeated the entire Psalter twenty times in one week, accompanying each psalm with a hundred lash-strokes to his back.
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Konrad Schmid (died 1368) was the leader of a group of flagellants and millenarians in Thuringia. Schmid educated himself in the library of Walkenried Abbey, 20 km northwest of Nordhausen in Thuringia. He was also familiar with the traditions of the flagellants; these had flourished throughout Europe in 1348–9, during the Black Death, until they were condemned by a papal bull in 1349. Schmid first appeared about 1360, reviving the flagellant sect in Thuringia and proclaiming himself its leader.
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San Rocco is a Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in None, Region of Piedmont, Italy. A church at the site was initially documented by 1522, but occupied by 1589 by the Company of the Disciplinati, also known as the Batù di San Rocco. In the past, this was a flagellant confraternity, but over the centuries it was less rigorous, and included both men and women. During processions at different festivals, the men are dressed in white, and the women, in yellow.
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The only son of William Rough of London, he was born on 21 August, in 1772 or 1773. He was admitted at Westminster School on 23 January 1786, and became a king's scholar in 1789. At Westminster he is said to have contributed to Robert Southey's school periodical The Flagellant. Having been elected to a scholarship from Westminster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1792, aged 19, he matriculated on 6 June in that year, and proceeded B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799.
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For example, Bergman has stated that the image of a man playing chess with a skeletal Death was inspired by a medieval church painting from the 1480s in Täby kyrka, Täby, north of Stockholm, painted by Albertus Pictor.Stated in Marie Nyreröd's interview series (the first part named Bergman och filmen) aired on Sveriges Television Easter 2004. However, the medieval Sweden portrayed in this movie includes creative anachronisms. The flagellant movement was foreign to Sweden, and large-scale witch persecutions only began in the 15th century.
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Flagellant in Taxco Semana Santa procession Holy Week in Taxco involves elaborate processions and ceremonies that have gained international fame. Between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, there are ten major processions, six during the evening and four during the day. Most processions are about two and a half kilometers long and take about two hours to complete. These commemorations date back to at least 1622 when they were begun in the atrium of the Church of the Ex monastery of San Bernardino de Siena.
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Anorexia mirabilis has in many ways, both similarities to and clear distinctions from the more modern, well-known "anorexia nervosa". In anorexia nervosa, people usually starve themselves to attain a level of thinness, as the disease is associated with body image distortion. In contrast, anorexia mirabilis was frequently coupled with other ascetic practices, such as lifelong virginity, flagellant behavior, the donning of hairshirts, sleeping on beds of thorns, and other assorted penitential practices. It was largely a practice of Catholic women, who were often known as "miraculous maids".
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Church of Santa Maria Annunziata (Fidenza) - facade Santa Maria Annunziata is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located in the town of Fidenza, Province of Parma, Italy. A chapel at the site is documented since 1230, erected under the patronage of the aristocratic Pinchelini (Pincolini) family. In the 15th century, a hospital arose adjacent to the chapel, dedicated to caring for the pilgrims called mysteriously in some documents "degli Scoatti" (Scivatorum, Scopatorum). Later the church was assigned to the Flagellant Confraternity of the Disciplinati, who were devoted to the Virgin of the Annunciation.
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Rosa Coote is a fictional dominatrix appearing as a stock character in a number of works of Victorian erotica, including The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant (as the notional author) by William DugdaleHenry Spencer Ashbee (as Pisanus Fraxi), "Catena librorum tacendorum", 1885, p.244Annalisa Di Liddo, "Alan Moore: Comics As Performance, Fiction As Scalpel", Great Comics Artists Series, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2009, , p.179Steven Marcus, "The other Victorians: a study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth-Century England", Transaction Publishers, 2008, , p.
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In 1495 the flagellant Confraternity dei Battuti Bianchi, ceded to monks of the Dominican Order, that had just moved into the town, their oratory (prayer hall), dedicated previously to both Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist. Construction of the brick church in a late-Gothic and early- Renaissance style began in 1522. The church has a single nave with twelve chapels. In the apse are 16th century frescoes by the school of Benedetto Coda, including a scene of the Decapitation of St John the Baptist and a Baptism of Christ.
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Central Italian flagellant confraternities evolved and emerged from Central Italian confraternities that originated in the tenth century. The members of these original confraternities were lay persons (usually men, but sometimes women) who were devoted to religious life. These groups promoted religious life but were independent of the church and offered an alternative form of service for those church members who did not want to commit themselves to the strict behaviors of monastic or convent life.Fenley, Laura. Confraternal Mercy and Federico Barocci’s Madonna Del Popolo: An Iconographic Study p.
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Life presents the ordinary human being with ample unasked-for occasions to practice redemptive suffering. However, religious practitioners in various traditions have found spiritual benefits from voluntarily bringing upon themselves additional pain and discomfort through corporal mortification. One extreme example of redemptive suffering, which existed in the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe, was the Flagellant movement. As a partial response to the Black Death, these radicals, who were later condemned as heretics in the Catholic Church, engaged in body mortification, usually by whipping themselves, to repent for their sins, which they believed led to the Black Death.
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Significant elements of sado-masochism were present in some examples, perhaps reflecting the influence of the English public school, where flagellation was routinely used as a punishment.Ronald Pearsall (1969) "The Worm in the Bud: the world of Victorian sexuality", Macmillan; pp. 404–22 These clandestine works were often anonymous or written under a pseudonym, and sometimes undated, thus definite information about them often proves elusive. English erotic novels from this period include The Lustful Turk (1828); The Romance of Lust (1873); The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant (1876) by Rosa Coote [pseud.
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Modern processions of hooded Flagellants are still a feature of various Mediterranean Catholic countries, mainly in Spain, Italy and some former colonies, usually every year during Lent. They also occur in the Philippines during Holy Week. For example, in the commune of Guardia Sanframondi in Campania, Italy, such parades are organized once every seven years. In Italy, members of the Flagellant movement were called disciplinati, while laudesi never practiced flagellation, but met together in their own chapel to sing laudi (canticles) in honour of the Blessed Virgin, but which gradually assumed a dramatic form and grew into a theatrical form known as rappresentazioni sacre.
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Robert Southey, by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1832, National Portrait Gallery, London Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill. He was educated at Westminster School, London (where he was expelled for writing an article in The Flagellant attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil),Geoffrey Treasure: Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain (2nd, enlarged edition, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1997), p. 143. and at Balliol College, Oxford. Southey later said of Oxford, "All I learnt was a little swimming... and a little boating." Experimenting with a writing partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, most notably in their joint composition of The Fall of Robespierre, Southey published his first collection of poems in 1794.
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Swinburne’s flagellant writings from The Pearl have been cited in British legal arguments as evidence against the safety and utility of corporal punishment in schools.Frank Bates, "Corporal Punishment in Legal, Historical and Social Context," Manitoba Law Journal 12 (1982-1983), 337. In 2011 an Australian alderman was convicted for possession of "child exploitation material" because a digital copy of The Pearl was found on his laptop. Greg Barns, the director of Australian Lawyers Alliance, noted that the conviction would imply criminality for possession of any number of works of art and literature, and media reports pointed out that Harper Collins had republished the magazine in 2009, and was currently available on Amazon.
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A church at the site was likely present by the 13th century, since documents once in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore of Bussolengo, state that in 1339, a Gilberto, bishop of Tiberiade, had reconsecrated the church after it had been sacked by soldiers fighting the Scaligeri forces. In 1391, the bishop of Verona, Giacomo de Rossi, granted the flagellant confraternity of the Disciplini the right to restore the church, and construct an adjacent hostel for travellers. By the first half of the 15th century the church had been frescoed by anonymous local painters with a cycle of frescoes narrating the Life of St Valentine. On the south portico of the church is a 14th-century fresco of the Crucifixion.
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His name is perpetuated by his enclosure of part of the nearby Tothill Fields for his old school as a playground, called Vincent Square after him. As the waste marshlands of the Tuttle or Tothill Fields were beginning to be built over, Vincent simply employed a man with a horse to plough a ditch around an area of some eleven acres; his receipt for the fee is in the Abbey archives. In his adherence to corporal punishment he resembled his predecessor, Richard Busby; and in 1792 he expelled Robert Southey for his contributions to an anti-flogging periodical, The Flagellant. The attention he paid to his pupils' religious education rendered him well qualified to answer the attacks of Thomas Rennell, master of the Temple, and Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, bishop of Meath, who had charged headmasters with neglecting this branch of their duties.
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Apart from the genre of requiem and funeral music, there is also a rich tradition of memento mori in the Early Music of Europe. Especially those facing the ever- present death during the recurring bubonic plague pandemics from the 1340s onward tried to toughen themselves by anticipating the inevitable in chants, from the simple Geisslerlieder of the Flagellant movement to the more refined cloistral or courtly songs. The lyrics often looked at life as a necessary and god-given vale of tears with death as a ransom, and they reminded people to lead sinless lives to stand a chance at Judgment Day. The following two Latin stanzas (with their English translations) are typical of memento mori in medieval music; they are from the virelai ad mortem festinamus of the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat from 1399: :Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, :Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur, :Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.
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Margaret of Ypres (1216–1237) was a Flemish visionary, ascetic, Dominican penitent and flagellant. She was one of a number of 13th century lay women who led devout lives, following the example of Marie of Oignies. Called mulieres religiosae or mulieres sanctae, some gathered together in beguinages while many others lived at home practicing voluntary poverty, chastity, prayer, fasting and penance, a lifestyle known as the vita apostolica in imitation of Christ.Anke Passenier, Women on the Loose, Stereotypes of Women in the Story of the Medieval Beguines, included in Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions, Ria Kloppenborg & Wouter J Hanegraaff, eds, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1995, pp 68-69 In Margaret’s time, such Dominican female penitents were unregulated by the Church and were under the guidance of individual spiritual advisers. A rule would not be established until Munio of Zamora’s Rule of the Brothers and Sisters of Penance of the Blessed Dominic (Regula Fratrum et Sororum Ordinis de Paenitentiae Beati Dominici) in the late 13th century.
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With the dawn of sound, Harry traveled to England to make a "quota quickie"—low-budget films made to satisfy a British government requirement that a certain percentage of films shown in Britain had to be made in Britain—and worked on a couple of routine westerns. He scored notoriety of a sort with the infamous "Poverty Row" serial The Lost City (1935) featuring William "Stage" Boyd, an actor known for his alcoholism who died shortly after the film’s completion (in one famous incident, he was arrested in a drunken escapade and a newspaper story covering it the next day mistakenly published a photo of actor William Boyd, later to become famous as "Hopalong Cassidy"; the mistake put a screeching halt to his at the time rising career)--the film is regarded many many aficionados as "the worst serial ever made". In 1936 Revier discovered some ethnographic footage of flagellant monks shot in New Mexico several years previously and built a racy feature around it, with star Marie DeForrest presented in a nude crucifixion scene. The resulting film, which was now called Lash of the Penitentes, became infamous and played on the states-rights market for years afterward.
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On this day, two Grecians destined for scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge Universities gave orations in praise of the school, one in Latin and the other in English. The Verrio painting can be seen along the wall on the right. The girls of the hospital settled at Hertford from 1707. The governors had been paying a teacher in Hertford from 1653, and the removal of some children from London following the Great Fire strengthened the link with the town. In 1761, 200 boys under the age of ten along with the boys from Ware were relocated to Hertford. In 1778 the last girls were moved out of London to join the others at Hertford, where the school was rebuilt 1795–1798 to provide accommodation for the new numbers. Christ's Hospital's most famous upper master was James Boyer who presided from 1778 to 1799 and instructed James Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In November 1815 the “most infamous Regency flagellant”, an MP named Sir Eyre Coote, entered Christ's Hospital mathematical school, sent away the younger boys and paid the older ones for a session of mutual flogging.
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