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A bishop ordains John Horne Tooke as a priest: the devil replaces the ordinand's virtues with vices. Engraving, 1771. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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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