Dashwood, F.

Japanese: Dashwood,F.(英語表記)DashwoodF
Dashwood, F.

...They met in an abandoned monastery and are said to have indulged in black magic and obscene orgies. The founder, Lord Dashwood (1704-81), inherited a huge fortune, the largest of its kind at the time, from his father, a wealthy merchant. He presided over the club for almost 20 years from the late 1750s, and its members included members of the British royal family, including the Prince of Wales, the famous playboy Earl of Sandwich, politicians such as the Mayor of London J. Wilkes, and B. Franklin. The club's meeting place was decorated with erotic murals, and the club's rowdy behavior of searching for young women from the streets of London for each meeting drew criticism from society, but at the same time it also became a place where dilettantes could freely criticize real politics and religion. ...

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Japanese:

…廃虚の僧院を集会所とし,黒魔術や猥雑な狂宴に熱中したといわれる。創設者ダッシュウッド卿Francis Dashwood(1704‐81)は富裕な商人であった父から当時随一と呼ばれた莫大な財産を相続し,皇太子を含む英国王室関係者,有名な道楽者サンドウィッチ伯爵,ロンドン市長J.ウィルクスをはじめとする政治家,さらにB.フランクリンらを会員に擁するクラブを1750年代後半からほぼ20年間にわたって主宰した。集会所にはエロティックな壁画が飾られ,会合のたびにロンドンの街中から若い女性を探し集めてくるという乱暴な行動は社会の指弾を浴びたが,同時にそこはディレッタントたちが現実の政治や宗教について自由に批判する場ともなった。…

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