James Nailor Quaker set 2 hower on the pillory at Westminster, whiped by the hang-man to the old Exchainge London, som days after stood too howers more on the pillory at the Exchainge, and there had his tongue bored throug with a hot iron & stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B: Decemr: 17: anno dom: 1656 [graphic].
1656
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James Nailor Quaker set 2 hower on the pillory at Westminster, whiped by the hang-man to the old Exchainge London, som days after stood too howers more on the pillory at the Exchainge, and there had his tongue bored throug with a hot iron & stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B: Decemr: 17: anno dom: 1656 [graphic].
Created/published
[England], [ca. 1656]
Description
1 print ; 13 x 9 cm
Associated name
Gaywood, Richard, active 1644-1668, printmaker.
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FAST ACC 271521 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "This rare print depicts the severe punishment of the Quaker leader James Naylor (1618-1660) after his being found guilty in London in 1656 of committing offences under the Blasphemy Act of 1650. Naylor avoided being sentenced to death but was whipped through the streets by the hangman, put into the pillory, had his tongue bored with a hot iron and the letter "B" for blasphemy branded onto his forehead before being subjected to indefinite solitary confinement in Bridewell. He was not released until September 1659 when an amnesty for Quaker prisoners was declared. The two part depiction of his sufferings here shows his tongue being bored and his being whipped at the rear of a cart. BM 1953, 0411.61. This engraving was attributed to Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) in Gustav Parthey's catalogue of 1853, however in Richard Pennington's A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (1982) it is classified (p.91) as a probable example of Hollar's style being faithfully copied by his pupil the etcher Richard Gaywood (fl. 1644-1668)."