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Usury bridled or hoppy-kikki hall, in an uproar
Description
English: Hopkins, the City Chamberlain, seated in an armchair (right) outside a small one-storied building symbolizing the Chamberlain's office. He holds a document inscribed "16 1/2 Pr Ct", saying, "It's a fair price". Beside him (left) is an open box inscribed "City Chest", full of money-bags. The building behind him is decorated with the City Arms, and flies a flag inscribed "Honesty Rewarded". A small projection from the main building immediately above Hopkins's head is inscribed "Morgages Annuities Bonds in Judgement. Colatl. Securities."


He appears unconscious of a lawyer (left) wearing a gown who advances towards him, holding by a chain a monster with the body of a dog and three human heads, two of which, and perhaps the third which is partly concealed, have bearded Jewish profiles. The lawyer holds a rolled document inscribed "Bill to Pre[?vent Usury]"; he is saying, "If I can't extirpate ye, I'll bridle you". Over his head flies Fame holding out a wreath and palm branch. The three heads of the monster are saying, "How cursedly the Lawyer pulls; Damn this Bill I can't keep my Horse and my Whore now", and "May our holy Phrophet Moses Confound 'em". In one paw is a rolled document inscribed "To the Clerk of the City Till", in the other, "Morgage on the Green horn Estates". 1 April 1777


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Depicted people Representation of: Benjamin Hopkins
Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 190 millimetres
Width: 224 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4552
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The Bill held by the lawyer appears to represent that "for regulating the grants of life annuities and for the better protection of infants against such grants" (17 George III, c. 26). See abstract of the Act, 'Ann. Reg.' 1777, p. 259. According to Walpole the Act was occasioned by a usurious bargain made by Hopkins for a loan to Sir John St. Aubyn (see BMSat 5414) in his minority, 'Last Journals', 1910, ii. 36-7. He was commonly called 'Vulture Hopkins', the noted usurer, 'City Biography', 1800, p. 136. As Chamberlain, he was responsible for the City Chest, which contained funds deposited for annuities for City orphans. Hopkins was Wilkes's rival, see BMSat 5327. He was four times a Director of the Bank of England (1765-79); M.P. for Great Bedwin 1771-4. A. B. Beaven, 'Aldermen of London', ii, 135.
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