page_title: Charles Ethelston
section_title: Aftermath of Peterloo
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Ethelston / Magistrate / Aftermath of Peterloo
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: politicalhouseth1819hone (find matches) Title: The political house that Jack built Year: 1819 (1810s) Authors: Hone, William, 1780-1842 Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill Subjects: Stoddart, John, Sir,d1773-1856 Publisher: London&#160;: Printed by and for William Hone Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Taxation too great to be borne,And pray for relief, from night to morn.Who in vain Petition in every form,^Who peaceably Meeting to ask for Reform,Were sabred by Yeomanry Cavalry, whoWere thanks bv THE MAN, all shaven and shorn &gt;Ail coverd with Orders—- ^&lt;*- and all forlorn&#160;;THE DANDY OF SIXTY, who boM^ with a grace. And has taste ia wigs, collar!*, ^ cuirasses, and lace&#160;; i Who, to tricksters, and fools,&#160;; iekves the State and its treasure,And, when Britains in tear^ sails about at his pleasure;Who spurnd from his presence the Friends of his Youth,And now has not one who will tell him the Truth&#160;;Who took to his Counsels,in evil hour,The Friejids to the Reasons of lawless Power&#160;;That back the Public Informer, whoWould put down the Thing*, ^^ ,^, that, in spite of new Acts,And attempts to restrain it by Soldiers or Tax,Will&#160;;?oi50/i the Vermin,That plunder the Wealth,That lay in the House, ^^ That Jack built. i r End of the House that Jack built. ,-^a.l oi )SiJfibw3a.^ -^»6ffi Text Appearing After Image: fA I;../ THE CLERICAL MAGISTRATE. The Bishop. Will you be diligent in Prayers—laying aside the study of tlic world and the flesh&#160;? The Priest. 1 will. he Bishop. Will you maintain and set forwards, as much as lieth in you, quietness, peace, and love, among all Christian People&#160;? Priest. I will. The Bishop laying his hand upon the head of him that receiveth the orderof Priesthood, shall say, RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. The Form of Ordination for a Priest. ** Th€ pulpit (ill the sober use . j. Of its legitimate peculiar powrs) Must stand acknowledffd, while the uorld shall stand, The most important and efiectual ijuard, Support, and ornamont of virtues cause. *&#160;»&#160;» # Behold the picture&#160;! Is it like&#160;? THIS IS A PRIEST, made according to I&gt;aw, Who, on himg Grdaind, vowd, by rote, like a daw.That, he felt himself calld, by the Holy Spirit,To teach men the Kingdom of Heaven to merit;That, to think of the World and the flesh hed cease,And keep men in quietness, love and peace;And, makin Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Charles Wickstead Ethelston, also given as Wicksted was an English cleric, now remembered for the part he played in his role as magistrate on 16 August 1819, ahead of the Peterloo massacre.
context_section_description: Some days afterwards, according to a letter published in the Manchester Observer, Ethelston said while preaching that Peterloo was the will of God. Henry Hunt appeared before the magistrates on 20 August, initially charged with high treason, those on the bench being Sir William Bagshawe, Sir John Byng, Ethelston, Ralph Fletcher, William Hulton, William Marriott, James Norris as chairman, Thomas William Tatton, Trafford Trafford, James Watkins and Richard Wright. Ethelston became concerned with headgear: radical supporters were wearing white hats, in imitation of Hunt, with green ribbons, and he wrote to Sidmouth about it on 13 September.
  Ethelston defended William Robert Hay in the Manchester Gazette on 25 September 1819, complaining of the ad hominem attacks made on all those who opposed reformers. William Benbow in his Rambler's Magazine in 1822 listed "Hay and Ethelstone" with disreputable clerics as "chief agitators" in Manchester. Satire against clerical magistrates picked on Ethelston. According to Gibson, "It took many years for the people to forget that the magistrates who read the Riot Act at the Peterloo débâcle were Anglican clergy."
  Henry Grey Bennet asked the radical John Shuttleworth on 18 November 1819 for information about the magistrates who signed the warrant to arrest Henry Hunt. This request may have prompted the pamphlet Manchester Slaughter! by "Old Radical". It took the form of an unsympathetic review of Ethelston's book of verse from 1803.
  A significant publication and best-seller of November 1819 was The Political House that Jack Built, a 24-page verse pamphlet parody of This Is the House That Jack Built, by William Hone, illustrated by George Cruikshank's woodcut caricatures. It contained "The Clerical Magistrate" with lines
  If the People were legally Meeting, in quiet
  
  Would pronounce it, decidedly—sec. Stat—a Riot,
  
  And order the Soldiers 'to aid and assist',
  
  That is—kill the helpless, who cannot resist.
  The accompanying cut by Cruikshank is based on Ethelston, and contains internal references to the way Cruikshank depicted Lord Castlereagh.
  On Sidmouth's retirement from the Home Office, a group of the magistrates signed a letter of thanks to him. Sidmouth replied to them, through Ethelston.
caption: Caricature of a two-faced clerical magistrate, from 1819, with the right-hand part holding gallows, scourge, blunderbuss and shackles.[39]
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