Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… of Quebec, 1790, p. 40-41. Reproduced with kind permission from a copy kept in Image Laurie & Whittle, ‘A Vestry Dinner’, 21 April 1795, The British Museum, 518692001. © The Trustees of the British Museum. … clergymen and civic authorities of a ‘Puritan’ persuasion increasingly frowned upon. Fig. 1: Laurie & Whittle, ‘A Vestry Dinner’, 21 April 1795, The British Museum, 518692001, ©The Trustees of the British Museum. In this satirical print, six members of a parish vestry enjoy a lavish dinner, while a thin man holding a paper inscribed 'Spare me a Bit your Worships' is pushed back by a beadle. Exclusive …
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