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[[File:John Rykener.jpg|thumb|John Rykener]]'''John Rykener''', known also as '''Johannes Richer''' and '''Eleanor''', was a 14th-century [[transvestite]] prostitute working mainly in [[London]] (near Cheapside), but also active in [[Oxford]]. He was arrested in 1395 for cross-dressing and interrogated. The records have survived, the only surviving legal records from that age which mentions same-sex intercourse. 

During his interrogation, Rykener claimed to have had many clients including priests, monks and nuns; he said that he preferred priests because they paid better than others. He revealed that one Franciscan friar had given him a gold ring, and that a Carmelite friar and six foreigners, "of whom one gave Rykener twelve pence, one twenty pence, and one two shillings."<ref>http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1395rykener.html</ref>

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