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The carelesse non-resident [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.71
Published
London : Printed by T. Badger for Rich. Royston ..., 1642.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Woodcut illustrating the t.p. to John Blaxton's A remonstrance against the non-residents of great Brittaine, or, Non-residency condemned by Scripture, by strength of arguments, by fathers, councels, canon-law, by the judgement of reverend and learned divines (imprint as above).
Mounted as item 71 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : woodcut ; image: 88 x 110 mm; trimmed sheet: 114 x 118 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Woodcut shows a landscape where a clergyman stands in the foreground, holding three miniature churches in his hands as he gazes at a church standing at far right, saying "I would I had thee too".
Classification
Department