The Lord Mayor of London kneels before King George III and presents a remonstrance on behalf of the City of London: the king has no time to read it as he is preoccupied with making buttons. Engraving, 1770.

Elizabeth Sawyer, of Edmonton, Middlesex, who was executed for witchcraft in 1621. Etching, 1794.

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