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1. Reformation began in Denbighshire anno 1741 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Feb. 27th 1741.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the corrupt election for the Denbighshire county seat in 1741 where William Myddelton returned his kinsman John Myddelton although the latter had been heavily defeated at the poll. William Myddelton is shown in his cell at Newgate, seated despondently in front of a fire above which is drawn a hanging man and the initials "R.T."; the Bishop of St Asaph peers through the barred window. Beneath the image is the receipt for the prisoner from Thomas Bold, Keeper of Newgate."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Below the image with the title, continuing 'Newgate Febry 24th 1741. / Reced. the Body of Willm, M-n Esqr. the High Sheriff of the County of Den - gh by the hand of Mr. Tho. Hollingshead Messinger to the Honble,, the House of Commons, by vertue of a Warrant from the Right Honourable the Speaker of the Said House. / Tho Bold Keeper / Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by T.B. Feb: 27th. 1741.', Publication year in British Museum catalogue: 1742., and On page after 100. Sheet 268 x 165 mm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament by T.B.
- Subject (Name):
- Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759, Myddelton, John, 1685-1747., Myddelton, William, and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Reformation began in Denbighshire anno 1741 [graphic].
2. Reformation began in Denbighshire anno 1741 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- Feb. 27th 1741.
- Call Number:
- 742.02.27.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the corrupt election for the Denbighshire county seat in 1741 where William Myddelton returned his kinsman John Myddelton although the latter had been heavily defeated at the poll. William Myddelton is shown in his cell at Newgate, seated despondently in front of a fire above which is drawn a hanging man and the initials "R.T."; the Bishop of St Asaph peers through the barred window. Beneath the image is the receipt for the prisoner from Thomas Bold, Keeper of Newgate."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Below the image with the title, continuing 'Newgate Febry 24th 1741. / Reced. the Body of Willm, M-n Esqr. the High Sheriff of the County of Den - gh by the hand of Mr. Tho. Hollingshead Messinger to the Honble,, the House of Commons, by vertue of a Warrant from the Right Honourable the Speaker of the Said House. / Tho Bold Keeper / Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by T.B. Feb: 27th. 1741.', Publication year in British Museum catalogue: 1742., Mounted., and Date from imprint repeated in unidentified hand in lower right corner of plate.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament by T.B.
- Subject (Name):
- Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759, Myddelton, John, 1685-1747., Myddelton, William, and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Reformation began in Denbighshire anno 1741 [graphic].
3. The M-r-ys, or, The thistle blown [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1743?]
- Call Number:
- 743.00.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Thistle blown and Murrays
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: As cannons shoot the higher pitches, the lower we let down their breeches ..., Temporary local subject terms: Guns: cannon -- Personifications: political writer as a cannon -- Slogans: Broad Bottom (taking all parties and people indifferently into the ministry - Horace Walpole's definition) -- Animals: greyhound -- Boxes: strong box -- Lawyers -- Jacobites -- Male dress: peer's robes -- Literature: Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759, Wynne-Williams, Watkin, Baron, 1692-1749, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The M-r-ys, or, The thistle blown [graphic].
