Mealtub Plott defeated
by an unknown artist
1681
British Museum 1868,0808.3293
This illustration appears on page page 279 of "The Plot in a Dream." It consists of four scenes:
"Papists hireing Servts to fire houses," a street scene with a servant woman, Elizabeth Oxley, accepting money from two men, one of them Father Giffard;
"E. Stafford beheaded," with Stafford, an executioner, and three men on a scaffold; soldiers stand the foreground;
"Parliamt. Return from Oxford," with coaches and horsemen and Oxford in the background;
"Mealtub Plott defeated," with monks and Jesuits observing constables finding papers in a meal tub and arresting Madame Cellier.
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