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Below the title: 'Dedicated to the Archbishop of Carlile-!!!' In the centre of the design Carlile, helped by Radicals wearing bonnets rouges, burns emblems of Church and State; in the centre of the flames is a tall crucifix which a chain of three radicals (left) is pulling down by a rope, while Carlile (right), trampling on the heaped emblems, pushes with a spear. To the crucifix is tied the shaft, topped by a cap of Liberty, which supports a placard: 'No Christianity!!!—No Religion!!!—No King!!!—No Lords! No Commons!—No Laws! Nothing but Tom Paine & Universal Suffrage!!!' A kneeling Radical (right) holds a brand to the burning pile which consists of 'Bill of Rights, Magna Chart[a]', a crown, sceptre, mitres, crosier, and books among which are a 'Holy Bible', 'Prayer Book', and 'The Law'. Murdered women, stabbed to the heart, lie on the ground. The holocaust is watched from the extreme left by a group of infidels, from the right by a grinning Devil looking out of a pit and holding a tr… (See Merlin record for full description)
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