Next him is a judge carrying 'Magna Charta' the third is a bishop with a 'Bible' under his arm. On the left three members of the House of Lords flee, their backs towards him: the Lord Chancellor (Loughborough), in hat, wig, and robes, as the Speaker of the Lords, carrying a document: 'Vote of the House of Lords One Dissentient Stan'. Stanhope, his coronet, breeches, and flag, are in full light, the rest of the design is in shadow, clouds forming a background. Above the design: "-off, off, ye lendings." In his right is a tricolour flag inscribed 'Vive l Egalite' the flagstaff is surmounted by an ass's head, which looks down at Stanhope, who looks ecstatically up at it, his head turned in profile to the left. He capers bare-legged, his breeches flutter to the ground from his left hand. Heading to printed verses: 'A Ballad, Occasioned by a Certain Earl's styling himself a Sans Culotte Citizen in the House of Lords.' Stanhope, wearing a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Liberty', tramples on a scroll inscribed 'A Deo et Rege', beside which lies his (overturned) earl's coronet.
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