Caricature of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) mb-code 1237802 'Too Civil by Half'

'Too Civil by Half'

pictured at the International Hotel

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However by September 1720 the market had collapsed and many investors were ruined

Caricature of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) mb-code 1237802 'Too Civil by Half'Satirical portrait of a clergyman half dressed as an Anglican, half as a puritan and standing at a pulpit and tub. On a table to the left as viewed, Roman Catholic accoutrements spill out of a bag near an hourglass. The Book of Common Prayer lies open before the pulpit. Inscribed in verse: 'A true blew Priest a Lincey Woolsey Brother One Legg a Pulpitt holds a Tubb the other An Orthodox, grave, moderate, Presbyterian Half Suplice, Cloake half Priest