A Faithful narrative of the proceedings in a late affair between the Rev. John Swinton, and Mr. George Baker, both of Wadham College, Oxford
Subtitle: wherein the reasons, that induced Mr. Baker to accuse Mr. Swinton of sodomitical practices, and the terms, upon which he signed the recantation, industriously publish'd in the Daily advertiser, London evening post, &c. are circumstantially set down, and submitted to the publick: to which is prefix'd a particular account of the proceedings against Robert Thistlethwayte, late doctor of divinity, and warden of Wadham College, for a sodomitical attempt upon Mr. W. French, commoner of the same college
Publisher: Printed in the year M.DCC.XXXIX and sold at the Britannia in the Old Bailey
Published: 1739
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Sodomy; Early works to 1800; Trials, litigation; Trials (Sodomy); Child sexual abuse; Faculty; Wadham College
Other titles: Proceedings between John Swinton and George Baker etc. -- 1739
Description: This publication was created by friends of Baker, wishing to redeem his reputation as a libellor and to cast suspicion upon Swinton. From p. 1-2: "The Recantation of Mr. George Baker of Wadham College, Oxford, in respect of the Rev. Mr. Swinton [whom Baker accused of sexually molesting a servant boy] ... having been industriously published ... to the great, and seemingly deserved, Disgrace of the former; his [Baker's] friends, who were under the highest Amazement upon the Appearance of that Publication [the recantation], and no less Concern for a young Gentleman ... thought such a Concession under his Hand a kind of Prodigy worth enquiring into. Accordingly they spared no Pains to sift the Affair to the Bottom ... [T]heir love of Justice, as well as Compassion for him [Baker], whose Ruin they saw aimed at in so cruel a manner ... these Motives induced them to draw up the following faithful Narrative of the whole Affair."
Notes: Erratum: t.p. verso.

Signatures: A1 B-E⁴

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