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The shilling or the value of a p-y : c-r's matrimonial honor   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The shilling or the value of a p-y : c-r's matrimonial honor
Description
English: A stout man, seated (right) with stag's horns growing from his forehead, turns away from a lawyer in wig and gown who approaches him from the left. 27 February 1782
Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Capt George Maurice Bissett
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 286 millimetres
Width: 202 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.39
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The shilling or the value of a p-y : c-r's [Privy Councillor's] matrimonial honor: One of a number of prints on an action brought by Sir Richard Worsley against one Bisset, a captain in the Hampshire Militia, for criminal conversation. The case was tried on 21 Feb. 1782 before Lord Mansfield, Worsley was awarded a shilling damages on the ground that he had countenanced and connived at his wife's adultery. The action was brought after Lady Worsley had eloped with Bisset. The lawyer (his counsel were the Attorney-General (Wallace), Lee, Dunning, and Erskine) throws down a coin on the table beside Worsley, saying, "They would not believ you posses [sic] any your contrivance for his peeping has ruined your cause". In his right hand is a document, "Sr R. W . . .y Pl. . .f against Cap . . . D . . . D . . .t". Worsley is exclaiming "O Lord O Lord no more than one shilling for my lost Honor". His horns are inscribed "W . . . m D . . . st &c. G . . .m &c P . . .gh &c", representing the names of those who gave evidence at the trial (Wyndham, Lord Deerhurst, Marquis of Graham, Lord Peterborough). Above their heads, reclining on clouds, is Justice, blindfolded, her scales in the left hand, a sword in her right hand; she says, “Take away that badge of Distinction, Shame may transfer the colour to his face”. This refers to a coat of arms on the wall over Worsley's head in which the (red) hand of a baronet is conspicuous. His hat and sword lie on the ground beside him. A panelled wall forms the background; on the left is a framed ‘Plan of the Isle of Wight’. Worsley (1751-1805) was Governor of the Isle of Wight, 1770-Apr. 1782, and published ‘The History of the Isle of Wight’, 1781. For the scandal see H. Walpole, ‘Letters’, xii. 134, 31 Dec. 1781, and xii. 179-80, 22 Feb. 1782. The trial, and several scurrilous pamphlets in verse on the subject, are in B.M.L. 11631. g. 31, 1-5. See BMSat 6106-6112.

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