Satire on those members of the Corporation of London who supported the Peace of Paris and their presentation of an address at St. James's Palace on 12 May 1763. A number of aldermen in procession along Fleet Street wear jack boots to show their allegiance to Lord Bute and carry emblems of their professions; they are caricatured, several with animal heads; some of their mounts are also presented grotesquely. Groups of people observe and comment, most of them in supposedly eastern dress to emphasise the fact that the procession is moving westwards towards St James's. At the front (to right) Sir Charles Asgill, the banker (in place of the Lord Mayor, William Beckford) carries a pole with money bags and is attended by a zany who holds a parasol over his head to "screen him from the rage of the Populace"; a bystander remarks, punningly, "'Tis money makes the Mare to go", and a small boy urges his dog to attack. Next come, Sir Robert Alsop, a Scottish hosier, with a thistle on his head, carrying a pole with gloves, stockings and ribbons, beside Sir Thomas Rawlinson, with a tea-chest, coffee-canister and sugar loaf on a pole, and another sugar loaf for a hat; they ride on mules. Next are Marshe Dickinson, a lawyer with the head of a fox, carrying a pole with a writing desk and legal documents, riding with Sir Henry Bankes, grocer and oilman, with jars, bottles and two dried fish on his pole. Next ride, Sir Samuel Fludyer, clothier, mounted on a ram and carrying bales and rolls of cloth on his pole, and Sir Francis Gosling, banker, with the head of a goose, carrying a volume of "Mother Goose's Tales" on his pole. Next, Richard Blunt, distiller, with a funnel on his head carrying a still, bottle and barrel on his pole, and Sir James Eyre, with a judge's wig and wolf's head, carrying a portcullis and noose. Next, Sir Thomas Challoner, sheriff, with a dog's head carrying a gallows from which is suspended a corpse, and Sir Thomas Harrison, the City Chamberlain,  carrying a urinal and chamber pot. The final figure is Sir James Hodges, stationer of London Bridge and Town Clerk, wearing a fool's cap, his horse with a horn book attached to its poll, and books and broadsides attached to his pole. 1763      
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circa 1763 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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