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Guess att my Meaning.
Description
English: A broadside satirising Benjamin Hoadly and High/Low Church disputes. An etching showing Hoadly seated at a desk writing "An Answer to a Sermon publish by Her Ma[hesty's] Com[mand]"; that Sermon lies on the table beside him, lettered "A Sermon pr[eached before Her] Majesty [by] Exon [i.e. the Bishop of Exeter; referring to the sermon of 8 March 1708]", and his crutches lean against the table. To the right, stands Oliver Cromwell, shown as Hoadly's supporter, weilding an axe. On the far wall is a book shelf with the following books: "Burn[et] Past[oral] Letter"; "Har[rington] Oceana"; [Toland] Chryst[ianit]y not Myster[iou]s"; "[Tindal] Rights of ye Chr[istian] Ch[urch]"; "Sydney of Gov[ernmen]t"; "Hobb[e]s Leviathian"; "Milton"; "Lock[e] of Governmen[t]". In the foreground, on the floor to the left lie organ pipes, a mitre, the Book of Common Prayer, a crozier and a bishop's robes; to the right, a small bearded man wearing a cap decorated with ass's ears and snakes playing a large drum. Engraved title and verses in two columns. (n.p.:1709)
Depicted people Representation of: Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester
Date 1709
date QS:P571,+1709-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 282 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 164 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1870,1008.1044
Notes

The publication line is false, and the broadside was presumably printed in London. Hoadly is shown here writing a reply to a sermon by Offspring Blackall (1654-1716), Bishop of Exeter, which had been published at Queen Anne's command. According to Stephens, the figure with a drum is a schismatic, representing the High Church opinion of Hoadly as both anti-monarchical and schismatic.

Stephens describes a second state of the print in which another book is lettered "[Richard] Baxt[er]s. Sh[ove]. to ye H[eavy] Arst C[hristian]"; there is some uncertainty as to whether such a book existed.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1870-1008-1044
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