Wesley (l.) as 'Reynard' with a fox's head, wearing an M.A. gown with clerical bands, bends forward to extract the teeth of a working man (r.) with an ass's head, who kneels before him. Wesley rests a cloven hoof on a pile of four books; inscribed "Locke", "Sidney", "Magna Charta", and "Ackerly's Constituts"; he wears a collar inscribed "North". Acherley's constitutional treatises ('The Britannic Constitution', 1727, &amp;c.) expressed an extreme form of the social contract theory of Locke and others. Beside him is a table (l.) on which are two open books transfixed by a dagger, across which is a scroll inscribed "Dispatch for America"; one book is "Impostor detected by R. Hill", the other "Political Sophistry detected by Evans". For these pamphlets see BMSat 5493.
<p><br>The working man, dressed like a blacksmith, opens his ass's jaws for Wesley's ministrations; in one hand is a bottle inscribed "Prim. Phys.", in the other a pamphlet, "A Calm Address" (see BMSat 5493); from his pocket protrudes a volume of "Hymns".
<br>Behind Wesley (l.) is a book-case, its pediment ornamented by a mitre, in allusion to Wesley's alleged desire for consecration, see BMSat 5493. Its three shelves of books are inscribed "Primitive Physick"; "Political Pamphlets"; and "Prayers", "Sermons", "Hymns". Wesley's 'Primitive Physick, or an easy and natural Method of curing most Diseases' went through many editions from 1747; it was first noticed and attacked by the medical profession in 1776 in a pamphlet by Dr. W. Hawes, an eminent physician, as "calculated to do essential injury to the health of those persons who may place confidence in it". On the back wall are two framed half length portraits: 'Jacobus II' and 'Lucy Cooper', the latter inscribed "Converted June 24 at 1 O'Clock in the Morning". According to the Explanation which has been cut off the impression, the pictures show him to be a Jacobite and "an old letcher". Lucy was "a Lady still remembered in Covent Garden", 'Perfection', p. 14 n.  1778
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