The arse bishop Joslin g a soldier, or, Do as I say not as I do

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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856
The arse bishop Joslin g a soldier, or, Do as I say not as I do
London : Pubd July 1822 by H Fores Panton Street Hay-Market , [1822]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.484
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London : Pubd July 1822 by H. Fores Panton Street Hay-Market , [1822]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Attributed to I.R. Cruikshank by George.

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Print shows a backroom in the White Lion public house in Westminster where the Bishop of Clogher, Percy Jocelyn, and a private in uniform have been apprehended "in flagrante delicto" by a constable, who has seized the two men by the neck. Bishop Jocelyn is saying: "Do let me go I'll give you £500," while the constable replies: "Oh no I'll make a full exposure so come to the black hole and you shall cast lots again, Old File." The soldier, his trouser undone, cries: "Oh! I am ruin'd and undone." A group of spectators who have gathered in the doorway of the room at right are shouting: "Hang the dogs I say let them not disgrace our gallant soldiers shoot the beasts"; "They must not live to disgrace the Church and the Army"; "Send them to Hell or Turkey"; "Send them to China"; "The Pillory The Pillory"; "Hang them in Chains."

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