File:Watkin Lewes Esqr presenting the addresses from the counties of Pembroke, Carmathen and Cardigan, to the Lord Mayor, Alderman Wilkes and Alderman Oliver in the Tower (BM 1880,0911.1058).jpg

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Watkin Lewes Esqr presenting the addresses from the counties of Pembroke, Carmathen and Cardigan, to the Lord Mayor, Alderman Wilkes and Alderman Oliver in the Tower   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Watkin Lewes Esqr presenting the addresses from the counties of Pembroke, Carmathen and Cardigan, to the Lord Mayor, Alderman Wilkes and Alderman Oliver in the Tower
Description
English: In a room with stone walls and barred windows Lewes (r.) presents the 'Cardigan' Address to the Lord Mayor, Oliver reads that of 'Carmarthen', Wilkes holds that of 'Pembroke', the place-names being engraved on the respective documents. The three prisoners wear furred civic gowns. Beneath the design is engraved:



"Thus Ancient Britons, gen'rous, bold & free,
Untaught at Court to bend the supple Knee,
Corruption's Shrine with honest Pride disdain
And only bow to Freedom's Patriot Train." 1 September 1771


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Depicted people Representation of: Brass Crosby
Date 1771
date QS:P571,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 173 millimetres
Width: 111 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1880,0911.1058
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Oxford Magazine', vii, 70.

During April the Lord Mayor received addresses from the three counties named and from the towns of Newcastle, Stratford, and Honiton, besides the freedom of the city of Worcester and of the town of Bedford. 'Ann. Reg.', 1771, 100. Wilkes of course was not in the Tower; he had refused to obey the summons of the House of Commons and they had been afraid to enforce it. Lewes, a Welshman, a City attorney and prominent City Whig, became an Alderman in 1772, and was knighted in Feb. 1773, when sheriff. Beaven, 'Aldermen of the City of London', 1913, ii. 135, 200, &c. For the imprisonment of Crosby and Oliver see BMSat 4853, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0911-1058
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