See No. 15573. Thomson, with a giant pair of snuffers, stands in profile, facing a huge three-branched candlestick (left), inscribed 'Tria junto in uno'. The candles are inscribed respectively (1eft to right) 'Anglicanus, Anglicana, Anglicanum', each being topped by a portrait head. The first is that of Grey in profile to the right, and with his accustomed smile; the second is Mrs. Grey, full-face, and with an agonized frown; the third, that of John Grey of Dilston, falls to the ground, clipped off by Thomson. Grey says '"I procured leave to make some retrenchments \ "and some expressions or even sentences"' [quoting his letter on his part in the publication of the 'Anglicanus' Letters, see No. 15574] '"I pray thee spare me at least! \ "and I'll pray for you."' His wife says: 'Oh! I'm undone; so much for composing heretical sermons and writing anonymous letters, and wearing breeches. Oh! that I had never come in the way of these "poor, cold hearted", close-fisted Scotch."' [not a literal quotation from 'Anglicanus', who speaks ('Letter vi') of 'the cold derivative influence it [the Bible Soc] has exercised in Scotland']. The third, John Grey, says: 'I fall a Martyr to unsound doctrines, and schism; and in departing from the path I ought to have tread [sic]'. Thomson, whose snuffers are inscribed 'Christian Instructor N° CCXI' [Feb. 1828], says: 'With what inate [sic] satisfaction do I extinguish those false lights, like Will O Wisp, which leads on, but to deceive! There goes one, and now for another caput of the three headed monster'. 'Brownie' stands beside the candlestick, saying with a delighted grin: 'Ma conscience! how easily he lops off their heads. I hope he will spare my friend who is "the very beau ideal of a Christian Minister, and whose very look is "suffecient to to disarm hostility"'.  1828
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