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Badge plaquette
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Badge plaquette
- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (made)
- Date:
1710 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
unknown (production)
- Museum number:
A.98-1930
- Gallery location:
In store
This plaquette was cast as a badge to be worn by partizans of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Sacheverell was impeached in 1710 and suspended for three years for preaching in the city at St. Pauls on Passive Obedience to the rule of princes and against the administration which tolerated dissenters. Sacheverells chief opponent was David Burgess, a Pastor of the Presbyterian meeting house in Carey Street, Lincolns Inn. The populace enraged at his attack on Sacheverell broke into his chapel and ransacked it.



