File:The fat pluralist and his lean curates (BM Y,4.579).jpg
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The fat pluralist and his lean curates
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The fat pluralist and his lean curates |
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English: An extremely fat bishop sits in an ornate two-wheeled chariot which is drawn (right to left) by six curates wearing bands and long ragged gowns. In his right hand he holds out a gothic church, two more churches are under his left arm. Behind his back, in place of a cushion, is a book, 'Self Denial a Virtue'. Two pigs stand behind him, their front hoofs supported on the back of the chariot. At his feet are two sucking pigs, a hen and a goose, representing tithes. The near chariot wheel passes over a book, 'The 39 Articles'. The bishop says: "The Church was made for Me, not I for the Church". One of the curates says: "Lord be mercifull to us poor Curates", another says: "And send us more Comfortable Living". 1 May 1772
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| Date | 1772 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Y,4.579 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) This was incorrectly dated c.1733, and catalogued as BMSat 2003 where Stephens suggests that subject may be John Lynch, dean of Canterbury, but this is unlikely as he had died in 1760. >From 'Every Man's Magazine', i. 459. The contrast between the higher and lower clergy was a constant subject of satire, see BMSat 4236. At this time attention was particularly directed to the clergy by the Bill for relief from subscription to the thirty-nine articles, see BMSat 4944, and by the motion on 17 Feb. 1772 opposed by the Ministry , for a 'Nullum Tempus' Bill to protect the owner of real property against dormant claims of the Church. It was urged that danger to the poor parochial clergy was used as a screen for the rich "to guard and defend luxury and superfluity", 'Ann. Reg.' 1772, p. 89 f.; 'Parl. Hist.', xvii, pp. 301 ff. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Y-4-579 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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