A Quiet Pint at the Cock Tavern - Charles Sedley 1663

Seventeenth century London’s most outrageous drinking session gets blasphemously out of hand.

With Restoration, wit, dramatist, poet and libertine, Sir Charles Sedley.

•  How did the scandalous behaviour of one bawdy playwright change English Law?
• Who were ‘The Ballers”?
• Which other rakish aristocrats made up ‘The Merrie Gang’
• What filthy thing did he say about King Charles II that could have caused a royal scandal?

Find out the answer to these and several other shocking questions in episode 1 of the podcast of Bad Behaviour in Period Costume. 

Want more 17th century bad behaviour?

Samuel Pepys:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1906885/9900933

Elizabeth Bathory: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1906885/10629249

Ninon de Lenclos: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1906885/10833589

François l'Olonnais: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1906885/10951535

Catalina de Erauso: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1906885/12205570

John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1906885/12637509

Claude Duval: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1906885/15212949

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