<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atherton" class="extiw" title="en:John Atherton">John Atherton</a> (1598-1640) (left) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Childe" class="extiw" title="en:John Childe">John Childe</a> (16xx-1640) (right), from the title page of the anonymous booklet <i>The shameful ende of Bishop Atherton and his Proctor Iohn Childe</i>, published in 1641). John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, was hanged for sodomy under a law that he had helped to institute. His lover was John Childe, his steward and tithe proctor, also hanged.
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1641<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1641-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
Louis Crompton: <i>Homosexuality &amp; Civilization</i>, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England 2003.