Saturday 31 January 1736
On Thursday Sir Richard Brocas committed to Wood-street Compter a Man, for being catched with another, who made his Escape, in the very Act of Sodomy, last Wednesday Night in St. Paul’s Church-yard. (Newcastle Courant)
23 February 1736
Last Saturday Night two Men were seized in the Passage by the Court of Common Pleas in Westminster-hall, in the Act of Sodomy; but one found Means to make his Escape, and the other being carried before Justice Blackerby, was committed to the Gatehouse. (Daily Gazetteer)
Monday, 1 March 1736
Last Friday two Sodomites were discovered at a Pulick House in Newgate-street, by a Person who has made Oath before jusstice of the Peace that he saw them in the Act; the Offenders who live in the Neighbourhood of Newgate Market thought proper to asbscond. (London Daily Post)
19 August 1736
On Thursday Mitchell and Hart, who had been convicted of Perjury, the one in swearing a Robbery, and the other an Attempt to commit Sodomy against Persons, in order to extort Money, stood in the Pillory for a second time, pursuant to their Sentence, in Covent-Garden, and the other in Long-Acre. (Stamford Mercury)
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