"On a small platform a quack doctor stands on the left, while a dissenting parson wearing bands sits on a chair (right); both lean towards their customers. Behind is a curtain with the inscription 'The cheapest Booth in the Fair'. The quack, an open box of medicine-bottles beside him, holds out a bottle, saying, "This is the only cure my Dear Friends for every disorder incident to the human body but for cure and comfort to your Souls I must beg leave to refer you to my Partner the other side of the stage". A woman and a man gaze up at him. His partner holds out a pamphlet to an elderly woman who reaches up eagerly for it, proffering a coin. He says: "All my last books of Sermons going for two pence a piece cheaper by one penny than you can buy them on those days that I preaches in the fields: and if any of you ketchd a cold at that time I'd advise you to apply to my partner for a bottle or two of his Stuff." The heads and shoulders of two other persons complete the audience."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Souls and bodies cured without loss of time
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 3, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
Anonymous manuscript collection of verse and prose by various authors. The volume includes "A Peaceable and Friendly Address to the Nonconformists written upon their desiring an Act of Toleration without the Sacramental Test," a possibly unpublished poem by Edmund Waller (1606-87) and works by Rochester, Dryden, Roscommon, Congreve, Sidney Godolphin, Addison and others. A later owner, signing himself Sam.[?pson] Estwick on the endpaper, has used the leaves at the end of the book for historical, scriptural and legal memoranda, and has on p. 37 made a note on "Some anthems proper for our Choire..."
Subject (Name):
Estwick, Sampson,--ca. 1657-1739
Subject (Topic):
Church music, Dissenters, English poetry--17th century, and Test Act--(1673)
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the diary of a dissenting divine living in Ireland who records, with close interest, the progress of the Dutch War and other domestic and foreign activities, including a famine in Ireland, the activities of Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Conde, persecutions against nonconformists in England, and notes about the American colonies. On November 16, 1675, he writes, """"I first heard of a War begun in N. England. Our first report is that the French joine with the Indians...A famine feared in N. England & Virginia by reason of 2 unseasonable yeares...The merchants forbid any more goods to bee sent from Londont o N.E. All the country, prepareing for war."""" Taylor mentions the work of John Eliot among the Indians and quotes a letter from Increase Mather. The manuscript also includes accounts of crimes, such as the description of an apprentice stabbed with a rapier hidden in a cane, notes on """"prodigies,"""" signs, and portents, and the description of """"an unusuall distemper which was generally called a cold, November 1675.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Dissenters, Dissenters, Religious, Dutch War, 1672-1678, and King Philip’s War, 1675-1676
"Design in an oval. A burlesque coat of arms symbolizing the supposed character of the Unitarians represented by Priestley. After the title is engraved: 'Address'd to those Peaceable Subjects of this Kingdom who prefer the Present happy Constitution to that Anarchy & Bloodshed so Zealously sought for by these restless advocates for Priestly & Paine's Sophistical Tenets.' A printed explanation is attached to the print. The shield rests on a vulture which grasps in its beak and claws the motto: 'Under these Garbs do we act.' On a shaded (sable) ground a harpy suckles young harpies and holds up the cap of Liberty with a pendent banner on which is a crown surrounded by drops of blood. On a border round the shield are ten groups of ten intertwined serpents. The crest is the Devil and a number of fiends attacking a glory of rays surrounding a triangle, symbolizing the Trinity. The supporters are (dexter) Religion, a veiled woman holding a book and cross, her foot on a skull, and (sinister) Hypocrisy, a woman with the feet of a bird of prey, reading a book, and holding (concealed) a dagger with a notched blade; a trumpet is slung to her waist; a small wallet containing 'a bandelure' (see BMSat 7829) hangs from her neck in place of a cross. She tramples on a crown. She wears a ragged drapery, intended to suggest humility, over a rich garment. 14 July 1792."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of prose below title: Addressd to those peacable subjects of this Kingdom who prefer the present happy constitution to that anarchy & bloodshed so zealously sought for by these restless advocates for Priestly & Paine's sophistical tenets., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. July 14, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Subject (Topic):
Harpies (Greek mythology), Dissenters, Religion, Unitarians, Coats of arms, Devil, Demons, Emblems, Liberty cap, Symbols, and Vultures
In a clear parody of Hogarth's "Sleeping Congregation" this scene in a dissenting chapel, shows the preacher leaning from the pulpit, his fist raised as he shouts to the congregation below. A squirrel sits on the canopy of pulpit gnawing on a nut. While some of the congregation in the foreground and those in the background in a raised pew or balcony look up at the preacher, most are smiling at their neighbors and exchanging amorous glances. A chandelier hangs from the upper margin, beside it an inscription: "My friends fear nothing! Follow the first and good commandment -- increase & multiply! Defy as I do Beelzebub & all his crew. We are as innocent lambs passing our evenings here in love and harmony. Hearken not to backsliders, attend regularly & your feelings shall be gratified."
Alternative Title:
Celebrated and Reverend T. Screech Me Dead attacking the devil in his strong hold
Description:
Title from item. and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Chapels, Courtship, Dissenters, and Preachers
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the diary of a dissenting divine living in Ireland who records, with close interest, the progress of the Dutch War and other domestic and foreign activities, including a famine in Ireland, the activities of Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Conde, persecutions against nonconformists in England, and notes about the American colonies. On November 16, 1675, he writes, """"I first heard of a War begun in N. England. Our first report is that the French joine with the Indians...A famine feared in N. England & Virginia by reason of 2 unseasonable yeares...The merchants forbid any more goods to bee sent from Londont o N.E. All the country, prepareing for war."""" Taylor mentions the work of John Eliot among the Indians and quotes a letter from Increase Mather. The manuscript also includes accounts of crimes, such as the description of an apprentice stabbed with a rapier hidden in a cane, notes on """"prodigies,"""" signs, and portents, and the description of """"an unusuall distemper which was generally called a cold, November 1675.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Dissenters, Dissenters, Religious, Dutch War, 1672-1678, and King Philip’s War, 1675-1676
