Notes from Dr. Borkosky

By the middle of the 1760s, the club appeared to be on the wane. "Sir Francis wasn't crazy," he says. He attempted to defend himself by claiming the man died from a rat bite, but he was found guilty. Once a week. The wealthy rakes of the Hellfire Club were highly skeptical of Christianity in particular, and according to one letter written by a member under the pseudonym "Morlock" (via Abarta Heritage), a lot of what they were doing was essentially thumbing their noses at organized religion. Perhaps it was this very act that made the name of the Hellfire something of a by-word in debauchery. Ladies were also reported to be members, with the Lady Mary Wortley Montague being perhaps the most illustrious.

The basics of the most commonly told story are this: Kelly became pregnant with Luttrell's child and tried to blackmail him. There's another, similar story credited to Santry, which says he was attending a Hellfire Club meeting when he forced a man to drink so much brandy it filled his stomach and throat, then lit him on fire. That's been true throughout history, and in the 18th century some of the richest men in Britain and Ireland decided to fill their nights with activities organized under the guise of a club whose name says it all: the Hellfire Club.

They also referred to members as three- or four-bottle men based on how many bottles of port they could drink at a time. ". Bribes worked — for a while — but he was eventually put on trial. The purpose of the club was to provide a place for fun, like-minded, intelligent people who wanted a place to be themselves. For his club, he "acquired" Medmenham Abbey and inscribed the motto "Fay ce que vouldras," or "Do what thou wilt" over the door. Dashwood was reportedly a fan of taking members of the clergy up into the sphere to see his massive lady-garden, and according to the modern Dashwood descendant in charge of the estate, Sir Edward, a lot of what actually went on at the Hellfire Club was all in good fun.

During the Enlightenment, people started to question what they had been taking on faith for a long time.

(Now we are getting to the weird “Eyes Wide Shut” ritual Christian/Catholic/pagan stuff). Unfortunately for history, he spent the three days prior to his death burning all club records. Even though there have been artifacts — tables, snuff boxes, and even medals — that seem to show diabolical imagery, that doesn't mean they actually worshiped the devil. By the early 1760’s, the club began to decline and would eventually be dissolved, possibly due to Dashwood’s appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer which ended in failure, or him taking a role of greater respectability in society with his elevation as the 11th Baron le Despencer. Members would dress as monks and characters from the Bible, and it seems as though the anti-religious stuff was what authorities really took an issue with — his club was closed in 1721 due to "blasphemy and profaneness.". Not only did the gardening feature some carefully placed pink rose bushes and triangles of forest, but there were also strategically placed fountains that could be turned on with a signal from Dashwood. Dashwood had not totally abandoned the idea of the Hellfire Club, he merely transitioned venue from the abbey to the caves he had renovated. These meetings were recorded in 1779 in a book called Nocturnal Revels. Dashwood thought that this would be an ideal location for the Club’s new meeting place. Meetings would be held twice a year. According to popular legend, Dublin's Hellfire Club always left one seat empty in case the Devil decided to join them, during their evenings that began with setting fire to a cat. The Hellfire Club is investigated on Season 6, Episode 8 of Ghost Adventures , a television show on the Travel Channel that investigates paranormal hotspots. Port Royal, originally named Cagway was an English harbour town and base of operations for buccaneers and privateers (pirates) until the great earthquake of 1692. Members included the notorious John Wilkes, whose political spat with fellow monk, and founding member, the Earl of Sandwich (yes, that was a real guy), would expose the activities of the club to censure and cement its notoriety in the public imagination,  Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the USA and fan of the madness inducing glass harmonica, Chevalier D’Eon the sexually ambiguous cross-dressing French Spy, and George Selwyn the eighteenth centuries own necrophiliac ‘gentleman sadist’, to name but a few. She also told the BBC that beneath Dashwood's estate is a series of tunnels, but no one really knows why he had them dug, what all the little rooms were used for, or what went on in the Inner Temple. The fossil remains of several small mammals discovered in tightly packed clusters in western Montana provide the earliest evidence of social behavior in mammals, according to a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist. One legend says that he impersonated the monarch, Charles XII, and that he made efforts to seduce Tsarina Anne while in Russia. Making fun of the various established churches was very current amongst the well-to-do, and it was central to the party-time rituals of the Hellfire Cub. Others sprang up in the following decades and quickly became known for drunkenness, debauchery, orgies, and just a dash of murder. He was just as much of a rake and a drunkard as the rest of them, Abarta Heritage says, but he liked a healthy dose of murder with his mayhem. There were a number of "chapters" of the club that sprang up throughout the 1700s, and there are a few crucial points that need to be made. Those hermits were, of course, Dashwood and his colleagues. It was likely taking a woman's virginity, and they were doing it while pledging allegiance to old pagan gods and swearing, in part, "all that is called good by priest-rid fools to entirely abandon, and to let nothing share the least part of my favour but what is solely urged by most vicious and libidinous desires. Lord Santry employed a sedan chairman to carry him around, and history has recorded what happened to the servant when he was ill and bedridden one day: Santry forced him to drink a quart of brandy, then set the bed on fire. This website uses cookies for website analytics and to allow ads. The club was reformed by Francis Dashwood, the 11th Baron le Despencer under the name of the Order of the Knights of St Francis (although the club also went under the names of the Brotherhood of St. Francis of Wy, the Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe and the Order of Knights of West Wycombe) around 1746.

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