"the Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe". The initial meeting was something of a failure and the group subsequently moved their meetings to the old abbey of Medmenham, about 6 miles from West Wycombe, where they called themselves the "Monks of Medmenham". Medmenham Abbey was built by the Cistercian order, and beautifully situated on the banks of the Thames near Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Dashwood rented it from the owner, Francis Duffield, along with his half-brother Sir John Dashwood-King, his cousin Sir Thomas Stapleton, the satirist Paul Whitehead, and John Wilkes – a total of twelve men. They frequently repaired there during the summer. They had the buildings restored by the architect Nicholas Revett in the style of the 18th-century Gothic revival. It is thought that Hogarth may have executed murals for this building; none, however, survive. The members are thought to have included "Frederick, Prince of Wales, the Duke of Queensberry, the Earl of Bute, Lord Melcombe, Sir William Stanhope, K.B, Sir John Dashwood-King, bart., Sir Francis Delaval, K.B., Sir John Vanluttan, kt., Henry Vansittart, afterwards Governor of Bengal, (fn. 13) and Paul Whitchead the poet". Meetings occurred twice a month, with an AGM lasting a week or more in June or September. According to Horace Walpole, who visited the abbey, the members' "practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed; and the nymphs and the hogsheads [casks of spirits] that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighbourhood of the complexion of those hermits." Dashwood's garden at West Wycombe contained numerous statues and shrines to different gods: Daphne and Flora, Priapus, Venus and Dionysus. The members addressed each other as "Brothers" and the leader, which changed regularly, as "Abbot". During meetings members supposedly wore ritual clothing: white trousers, jacket and cap, while the "Abbot" wore a red ensemble of the same style. Rumour was that female "guests" (a euphemism for prostitutes) were referred to as "nuns". Club meetings were said to have included mock rituals, items of a pornographic nature, much drinking, "wenching" and banqueting. Legends of Black Masses and Satan or demon worship subsequently became attached to the club, beginning in the late Nineteenth Century. Over the grand entrance to the abbey was placed, in stained glass, the famous inscription on Rabelais' abbey of Theleme, "Fay ce que voudras " [do what