Hell-Fire Club

…of the notorious but influential Hell-Fire Club in the 18th century. Pop. (2001) 14,004; (2011) 14,325.

…Monks,” members of the so-called Hell-Fire Club who met occasionally in the ruins of St. Mary’s Abbey at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, to indulge in debauchery and the performance of Black Masses. In 1754, at the suggestion of Earl Temple, Wilkes stood for election to Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed—unsuccessfully, despite his bribing a…