Plate from 'Fox's Book of Martyrs', ed. Paul Wright, n.d. (after p. 952). Palace Yard filled with an orderly procession of soberly-dressed and highly respectable men marching left to right. At their head, but preceded by a body of men with a banner, is a stout man carrying on his shoulders an enormous roll inscribed "Protestant Petition". Three banners are carried, two inscribed "Protestant Association", the other "No Popery". A few men wave their hats.   In the background (left) are houses, the windows filled with spectators, and (right) the House of Lords.   In the foreground (left) sits an apple-woman beside her stall.  After the title is engraved, "peaceably proceeding to the House of Commons, on Friday June 2, 1780 (in consequence of which being previously advertised, upwards of 40,000 Persons had assembled in St George's Fields ... with their Petition which was carried by Mr Hodgkinson, and presented to the House by their President, Lord George Gordon . . . on which occasion the mischievous Emissaries of the Papists, taking advantage of the opportunity, caused the subsequent Insurrections &amp; Riots that the odium might be thrown on the Protestants . .. &amp; Lord George Gordon was committed close Prisoner to the Tower, as the principal Abettor of the Riots but was honourably Acquitted . . . Febry 6 1781, to the entire Satisfaction of all real Friends to Civil &amp; Religious Liberty, and the Protestant cause. Nor was there ever one single Person either convicted, tried or even apprehended, on suspicion . . . who was a member of that Respectable Body, the Protestant Association."  ? 1781
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<dl><dd>Published by: Alexander Hogg</dd></dl></div>
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