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The Rev. Thomas Arthur was a very naughty boy indeed!

She got more letters about that article, and from people in places like Alabama.

Susanna wrote: "The Rev. Thomas Arthur was a very naughty boy indeed!

She got more letters about that article, and from people in places like Alabama."

The actual details are not mentioned in this book, and I couldn't find anything on the web either. Now this nosey besom wants to know. Did J leave the details out because of those letters?

Well, some details she just couldn't find; the records seem to have been destroyed in the 19th century.

But he was accused of "thrusting his hands in her bosom" with young ladies of gentle birth in his own parish! Ecclesiastic trial for heresy and everything.

Susanna wrote: "Well, some details she just couldn't find; the records seem to have been destroyed in the 19th century.

But he was accused of "thrusting his hands in her bosom" with young ladies of gentle birth i..."


mwhahahah - are genteel bosoms heretical? That must have been scandalous at the time, but to rap him with heresy seems harsh. As 'they' say, the past is an alien country.

Thanks for dishing the dirt.

ah-hah - Page 115 gives the account of The Case of the Scandalous Rector. That earlier mention without details was a carrot.