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The traytors coat of arms

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A broadside, anti-Jacobite, anti-Catholic and anti-French. The illustration portrays a coat of arms, flanked by a priest and a Highlander; below the etching in letterpress are three columns beginning with the text: "The explanation." The lilies of the French Royal arms changed to upside down frogs and the legitimacy of the Stewart line questioned by the inclusion of the bed-pan child over the priest's shoulder. The text begins: "The three toads are the French Old Coat of Arms, their heads downward, in a sable field; the coat revers'd denotes treason in perfection. The supporters are a Popish priest on one side in his habit, with a warming-pan on his shoulder, with the lid open and a young child in it. In his right hand is a bloody pen-knife in a posture ready privately to execute the cruelty their religion teaches them to exercise on Protestants ...
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Publication date
publish'd September the 16th, 1746, according to act of Parliament.
Call number
330346:289
Provenance
Purchased from Chas. F. Traylen, July 1959. Mounted on leaf numbered 289 and bound in a scrapbook collection of materials on the Jacobite Rebellion. 1745 which was assembled by W.D. Fellowes. The scrapbook has been disbound and the leaves foldered and rehoused into two clamshell boxes.
Dimensions
plate mark 36 x 36 cm, on sheet 60 x 47 cm
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