Transcribed from the 1813 J. Cook edition ,

THE
PHŒNIX OF SODOM,
OR THE
Vere Street Coterie.

BEING ANEXHIBITION
OF THE
GAMBOLS PRACTISED
BY THE
Ancient Lechers
OF
Sodom and Gomorrah,
EMBELLISHED AND IMPROVED WITHTHE
MODERN REFINEMENTS
IN
Sodomitical Practices,

BY THEMEMBERS 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.

p. 3THE
VERE STREET COTERIE,
OR
The Phœnix of Sodom.

I think it a duty I owe both thereader and myself, to account for my acquaintance with any partof the disgraceful transactions disclosed in the annexedpages.

Some months ago, when I was contemplating the most odiouscharacters on the list of Attorneys, to compose the Fifth Numberof my Strictures on the Practice of those voracious vultures, itcame to my knowledge that an Attorney named Wooley (with thatalacrity with which crows fly to carrion) had repaired to thedifferent prisons, where those wretches apprehended in VereStreet were committed, and, p. 4under pretence of assisting theoffenders obtaining their liberty, and enabling them to escapejustice, stripped them of every guinea they possessed, and,indeed, of every article that would produce one at apawnbroker’s.  I therefore sent to Newgate, to learnfrom Cook, the landlord of the house, whether my information wascorrect; who sent his wife to me, and related a long history ofthe means and fallacious pretences by which he obtained abovethirty pounds from her, for the purpose of bringing herhusband through; that being the phrase of those fellows, whohang about prisons, to tutor their new clients:—(I havemade use of the expression TUTOR, because there are degrees ofiniquity, that the most atrocious offenders accustomed toa long residence in the cells of Newgate have yet to learn of acertain description of attorneys;) in fine, after he hadexhausted every stratagem that his colleague the devil andhimself could devise to get money, and finding no more could beextracted from nakedness, he became wholly negligent of his p. 5client; and inorder to get rid of Cook’s importunities, told him he musthave fifty pounds more, or he could not get him liberated. On the woman prostrating (as the truth was) that almost everyarticle of wearing apparel had been disposed of to raise themoney he already had received, he very friendly suggested to her,that a woman of her appearance might easily raise money byputting off One Pound Bank Notes th