The Vere Street Coterie were a group of men arrested at a Molly house in Vere Street, London in 1810 for sodomy and attempted sodomy. Eight men were eventually convicted. Two were hanged (as per the then still extant sodomy laws promulgated by Henry VIII in 1534) and six were pilloried for this offence. Along with Oscar Wilde's imprisonment for a similar offence, this event was one of the major events in gay history in England during the 19th century. It is also known in connection with alleged same sex marriages there by Reverend John Church.