Satire on the attempt to establish an Anglican  episcopacy in the American colonies. A group of angry  colonists push away from a quayside a ship named  “The Hilsborough” (a reference to Wills Hill, Earl of  Hillsborough, Secretary of State who had ordered   troops to Boston  in June 1768) On the ship is a large  carriage with its wheels and a crosier and mitre beside  it. A bishop is climbing the rigging saying “Lord, now  lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace” (Archbishop  Secker who died in August 1768 had left £1000 to help  establish a bishopric in North America). The colonists  are shown as advocates of liberty of conscience and  religious non-conformism: one waves a large book  lettered “Sydney on Government”, another brandishes  “Locke”; “Calvins Works” has already been thrown  towards the bishop; another colonist waves a flag,  topped with the cap of liberty and emblazoned with the  words “Liberty &amp; Freedom of Conscience”; a Quaker  holds “Barclay’s Apology” saying “No Lords Spiritual or  Temporal in New England”.  A monkey on the quay  holds a stone as if intending to throw it at the bishop. A  paper lies on the ground lettered “Shall they be obliged  to maintain Bishops that cannot maintain themselves”.  The print appeared in the Political Register, 1769,  facing p.119.
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1769<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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