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[[Image:GrubStreet-London 300dpi.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings.  Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below.  At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares.  A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.|19th-century ''Grub Street'' (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in ''(contracted; show full), an independent minister born in 1780, raised the ire of the local hacks when he admitted he had acted 'imprudently' following allegations he had sodomised young men in his congregation.<ref>{{Citation | last = Clement | first = Mark | title = Church, John (b. 1780) | publisher = oxforddnb.com | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58284 | year = 2004 | format = Registration required | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/58284}}</ref>  Satire was a popular pastime&mdash;the [[Mary Toft
s]] affair of 1726, concerning a woman who fooled some of the medical establishment into believing she had given birth to rabbits&mdash;produced a notable dirge of diaries, letters, satiric poems, ballads, false confessions, cartoons, and pamphlets.<ref>{{Harvnb|Todd|1995|pp=1&ndash;2}}</ref>

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