360 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
connected with Sacheverell. Each card has a couplet engraved under 
the design as below.” 
Reference to the British Museum Catalogue will supply a full 
description of the series of red cards, hearts and diamonds, which are 
preserved in that great national collection. By chance, through the 
kindness of a friend, the missing black cards belonging to the spades 
and clubs, which were up to this time totally unknown, have fallen into 
my possession, and we are able, with their aid, to complete the literary 
and political history of Dr. Sacheverell, so far as they were recorded 
in this interesting pack of cards, each of which will be briefly described 
in a manner similar to those already catalogued in the British Museum. 
The cards were designed and published immediately about the period 
when the Doctor managed to set England in a blaze of excitement, 
and was at the height of his popularity as a High Church champion. 
DEscRIPTION OF THE SUIT OF SPADES. 
Ace.—The mace and purse are carried off from the Lord Chancellor, 
who is seated :— 
‘See him Surrender up the Purse and Mace, 
That Harcourt may supply Lord Coop—’s place.’’ 
Sir Simon Harcourt was one of Sacheverell’s council when he was 
impeached. 
Two.—Queen Anne on a throne, an angel represented drawing 
aside a curtain held by the Duchess of Marlborough; Harley walking 
towards the throne :— 
“* An angel makes the Curtain open wide, 
And shews y® Queen that truth w*! one would hide.’’ 
Three-—Queen Anne giving a key to Earl Powlett, Harley, after- 
wards Earl of Oxford, and others, as Commissioners, on dismissal of 
Lord Godolphin, the High Treasurer, August 8, 1710 :— 
“Into his worthy Hands she gives the Key, 
By which her Mistress breathes an Air that’s free.”’ 
Four.—Sacheverell robed at the bar of the House of Lords, his 
accusers urging their statements to the Chancellor and Peers :— 
‘Stern Managers against his Doctrines rail, 
And in them Anna’s sacred Rights assail.’’ 
Five-—A Judge pronouncing sentence on the several persons out- 
side the Bar :— 
“The Baron may excel the wise Recorder, 
But killing Horses never will be Murder.”’ 
Siz.—Sacheverell walking down through House of Lords, away 
from the empty woolsack, the Lords grouped on either side. On May 
