As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.

That night under the porch there was a scrabbly sound, like a dog in a gravel pile, going steadily on under barks and groans and screeches. Something was digging down deeper.

He marked four widths of the becket to the left, then thrusting and penetrating for fully 18 inches into the soggy peat, withdrawing and twisting the becket, completing the final thrusting on the back run.

Whig printers were carrying on a campaign against Queen Caroline, depicting her as a voluptuous, painted harlot chasing wildly after Italian men. Luckily, the king was being portrayed in “Queenist” caricatures as a haughty and lustful fop bursting out of waistcoats and breeches with his current mistress fawning at his feet.