Badge Plaquette
1710 (made)
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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.
Object details
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| Brief description | of Dr Henry Sacheverell; Lead English 18C,1710 |
| Physical description | Badge plaquette in lead representing Dr. Henry Sacheverell. The Dr is shown seated before a curtain holding on his knee a shield surmounted by a mitre inscribed "PASSIVE OBEDIENCE". His left leg placed upon an allegorical figure holding two snakes. From the arch in the background to the right a second figure inscribed above "BURGESS" approaches him with dagger and pistol, while to the right a third figure with ribbon inscribed "MODERATION" moves away. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | "PASSIVE OBEDIENCE," "BURGESS," "MODERATION" |
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| Summary | 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. |
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| Accession number | A.98-1930 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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