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Hellfire Club, the Glossary

Hellfire Club was a term used to describe several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th Century.^[1]

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Clubs and societies in England
Secret societies in the United Kingdom

Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aenē̆is or) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, philosopher, political theorist, novelist, mountaineer, and painter.

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Annual general meeting

An annual general meeting (AGM, also known as the annual meeting) is a meeting of the general membership of an organization.

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Anstruther

Anstruther (Ainster or Enster; Ànsruthair) is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the north-shore of the Firth of Forth and south-southeast of St Andrews.

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Baron le Despencer

Baron le Despencer is a title that has been created several times by writ in the Peerage of England.

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Benjamin Bates II

Benjamin Edward Bates II (13 March 1716 – 12 May 1790) was a British physician, art connoisseur, and socialite.

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Black Mass

A Black Mass is a ceremony celebrated by various Satanic groups.

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Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Brooks's

Brooks's is a gentlemen's club in St James's Street, London.

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Charles Johnstone

Charles Johnstone (–1800) was an Irish novelist.

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Cider Bill of 1763

The Cider Bill of 1763 was a proposed measure by the British government of Lord Bute to put a tax on the production of cider.

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Club (organization)

A club is an association of people united by a common interest or goal.

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Daphne

Daphne (Δάφνη), a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.

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Diogenes Club

The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentlemen's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, such as 1893's "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter".

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Dionysus

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Διόνυσος) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.

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Flora (mythology)

Flora (Flōra) is a Roman goddess of flowers and spring.

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François Rabelais

François Rabelais (born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author.

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Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer

Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer, PC, FRS (December 1708 – 11 December 1781) was an English politician and rake, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club.

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Francis of Assisi

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans.

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Frederick, Prince of Wales

Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis,; 31 January 170731 March 1751) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Gentlemen's club

A gentlemen's club is a private social club of a type originally set up by men from Britain's upper classes in the 18th and succeeding centuries.

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George and Vulture

The George and Vulture is a restaurant in London.

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George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe

George Bubb Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe (1691 – 28 July 1762) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1761.

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George I of Great Britain

George I (George Louis; Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727.

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George IV

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.

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Gerald Suster

Gerald Suster (2 August 1951 – 3 February 2001) was a British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Gnosis (magazine)

Gnosis was an American magazine published from 1985 to 1999 devoted to the study of Western esotericism.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in Central London, England.

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Hellfire Caves

The Hellfire Caves (also known as the West Wycombe Caves) are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend 260m underground.

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Hogshead

A hogshead (abbreviated "hhd", plural "hhds") is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity).

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland

John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland (24 March 1685 – 26 August 1762), styled The Honourable John Fane from 1691 to 1733 and Lord Catherlough from 1733 to 1736, of Mereworth Castle in Kent, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in three separate stretches between 1708 and 1734.

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John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten.

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John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, (25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III.

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John Wilkes

John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Montpelier Hill

Montpelier Hill is a 383-metre (1,257 foot) hill in County Dublin, Ireland.

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Nicholas Revett

Nicholas Revett (1720–1804) was a British architect.

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Nicolas Chorier

Nicolas Chorier (September 1, 1612 – August 14, 1692) was a French lawyer, writer, and historian.

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Parody religion

A parody religion or mock religion is a belief system that challenges the spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule).

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Paul Whitehead (satirist)

Paul Whitehead (6 February 1710 – 20 December 1774) was a British satirist and a secretary to the infamous Hellfire Club.

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Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton

Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton PC (21 December 1698 – 31 May 1731) was an English peer and Jacobite politician who was one of the few people in the history of England, and the first since the 15th century, to have been raised to a dukedom whilst still a minor and not closely related to the monarch.

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Priapus

In Greek mythology, Priapus (Πρίαπος) is a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia.

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Rake (stock character)

In a historical context, a rake (short for rakehell, analogous to "hellraiser") was a man who was habituated to immoral conduct, particularly womanizing.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Robert Vansittart (judge)

Robert Vansittart (December 28, 1728 – January 31, 1789) was an English jurist, antiquarian and rake.

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Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1721 to 1742.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Secret society

A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed.

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Seditious libel

Seditious libel is a criminal offence under common law of printing written material with seditious purposethat is, the purpose of bringing contempt upon a political authority.

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The Beggar's Benison

The Beggar's Benison was a Scottish gentlemen's club devoted to "the convivial celebration of male sexuality".

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The North Briton

The North Briton was a radical newspaper published in 18th-century London.

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Thomas Potter (died 1759)

Thomas Potter (1718–1759) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1747 and 1759.

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Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough

Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693 – 5 May 1742) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1715 to 1722.

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True Will

True Will is a foundational concept in Thelema, the philosophical and magical framework established by Aleister Crowley early in the 20th century.

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Venus (mythology)

Venus is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night, an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve), is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May.

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West Wycombe

West Wycombe is a small village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, famed for its manor houses and its hills.

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Will Thomas (novelist)

Will Thomas, born 1958 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is an American novelist who writes a Victorian mystery series featuring Cyrus Barker, a Scottish detective or "private enquiry agent," and his Welsh assistant, Thomas Llewelyn.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.

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Writ of assistance

A writ of assistance is a written order (a writ) issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff or a tax collector, to perform a certain task.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club

Also known as Brotherhood of St. Francis of Wycombe, Damask (comics), Friars of Medmenham, Hell Fire Club, Hell-Fire Club, Hellfire Clubs, Medmenham Club, Monks of Medmenham, Order of Knights of West Wycombe, Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe, The Hellfire Club.

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Hellfire Club, the Glossary

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See also

Clubs and societies in England

Secret societies in the United Kingdom

References