To The Right Honble. the Earl of Westmorland, Chancellor; to The Right Honble. the Earl of Litchfield, High Steward; to the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor; all the doctors, masters and scholars of the University of Oxford, this plate is humbly dedicated by their most obedient servant, Thos. Worlidge [graphic]

"The interior of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, looking towards the rear, the seats around the sides, in the gallery and in the stalls, crowded with scholars and others listening to a debate between two academics facing each other in pulpits on either side, observed by the chancellor in a pulpit in the centre, with women among the spectators grouped in front of the benches in the foreground and showing part of Streater's paintings on the ceiling above."--British Museum online catalogue