A bishop ordains John Horne Tooke as a priest: the devil replaces the ordinand's virtues with vices. Engraving, 1771.

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[1771]
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36197i
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John Horne (subsequently Horne Tooke) had been a friend and political supporter of the radical politician John Wilkes, and had unguardedly written to Wilkes on 3 January 1766, "in a language not befitting his clerical standing: 'It is true I have suffered the infectious hand of a bishop to be waved over me; whose imposition, like the sop given to Judas, is only a signal for the devil to enter'" (Oxford dictionary of national biography), referring to Horne's ordination in 1760. Wilkes and Horne subsequently fell out, and Wilkes published Horne's remark in 1771

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[London] : [publisher not identified], [1771]

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1 print : engraving ; image 15.7 x 11.1 cm

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A private ordination. It is true I have suffered the infectious hand of a Bishop to be waved over me: whose imposition like the sop given to Judas, is only a signal for the Devil to enter. It is true that usually at that touch, fugiunt pudor verumque, fidesque. In quorum subeunt locum fraudes, dolique, insidiaeque. &c.&c.

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British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. V, London 1935, no. 4866

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Wellcome Collection 36197i

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