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Print issued as a frontispiece to Thomas Hastings's: The Book of the wars of Westminster : from the Fall of the Fox . . . to the 20th Day of the Third Month, 1784 (London : Printed for Ishmael, sold by Cornwell, 1784).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
A group of seven men and women standing in a semicircle. Slightly detached stand North (left) and Fox (right) addressing the seven, who are the Witch of Endor, with other witches and other supporters of Fox, who have met in Westminster Hall on 14 Feb. to prepare for the meeting on that day. North addresses the Witch of Endor, saying, "Call Fiends and Spectres from the Yawning Deep". The Witch, in profile to the left, addresses her companions to whom she holds out a bag: "Cast in your mite each Midnight Hag Fill the Protectors Poisoned Bag." Fox enters, his arms outstretched towards the witches, saying, "And set the Ministers of Hell to Work." The background is the pillared wall of Westminster Hall, on which are two escutcheons, one with a mantle, the other a chevron with three swans or geese. Possibly one represents a peer's mantle, and is an allusion to the promises of peerages made by Fox, see Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, iii. 255, the other the Westminster geese, see BMSat 5843, &c. The witches' bag is that which was thrown at Fox in Westminster Hall, see BMSat 6426, &c. Cf. British Museum online catalog.