Jeremy Farrer

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Jeremy Farrer was found "abusing himselfe on the fast day in St Faith's Church"[1] in "a sodomitical manner" in 1628, and owned up to having done the same "in other churches for the space of a yeare".[2]

References

  1. It's unclear what church this refers to: St Faith's church in the City of London had been removed in 1256 to allow for the extension of St Paul's Cathedral
  2. Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons, Cambridge, 2008, page 95.