| News of the Times Short 58
| The Time: 1749
| The Story: Extorting money from sodomy accusations
| This was so much the thing at the tme that they had to make a law against it. Basically, someone would accuse a wealthier person of sodomy and attempt to extory money from the accusation. Interesting news story,
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