File:Review of the York regiment (BM 1868,0808.3788.+).jpg

English: A bishop in lawn sleeves and mitre holds out his hands towards a troop of soldiers who advance through a gothic doorway (l.), over which is inscribed "Gate to Preferment". He turns round to speak to Britannia (r.), who leans against a pedestal inscribed "Constitution"; she holds her shield and a long staff, and wears a cap of liberty. The bishop, Markham, Archbishop of York, says to her, "Madam a noble Corps, True and Staunch Friends to the Cause, have learned their Exercises at the Loyal Schools at Oxford". Britannia answers, "This Gate is not ye Door to your Master's Sheepfold, he that entereth not by ye Door is a thief & robber I will not trust you, you mould ruin my Constitution & tear my Cap". Behind Britannia appear the head and shoulders of a man who appears to carry a musket on his back, perhaps an Irish Volunteer, he says to her, "Dear Madam Tory's & Jacobites were never Friends to the Brunswick Line remember ye Years 15 & 45."

The soldiers wear clerical bands and low-brimmed hats and carry muskets with fixed bayonets; on their banner is a mitre; their leader holds a crozier; he is saying "Please you Madam, for Mitres, Deaneries and Pre-bendarys we will wade thro' an Ocean of Yanky Blood". The heads and shoulders of a number of parsons, similarly dressed, who are rushing uphill towards the "Gate to Preferment" to join the 'York Regiment', appear between the troop and the archbishop.
In the foreground (r.) two soldiers are talking together; one says, "Tom who the Devil will trust these Fellows who are neither true to God nor Man, for every one is a Deserter from the Prince of Life". The other answers, "Let them alone, they are but hirelings if I was King I would hang them all." On the horizon are churches or cathedrals falling into ruin. n .d. c. 1778, perhaps 1777

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