Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer Size:S: 30 x 25cm Late 1860s

Late 1860s

and a mechanic

having been refused a place on the coach being driven by Joseph Chamberlain

The particular issue illustrated by this cartoon is the Irish Land Bill which Gladstone had introduced to the Commons in mid February 1980

Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer Size:S: 30 x 25cm Late 1860sSir William Gascoigne defies King Henry IV, 1405 (1864). Gascoigne (1366 1423), Chief Justice of England, refusing to pass a sentence of death upon Lord Scrope (1350 1405), Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, the Earl Marshal, who had been implicated in the failed uprising against the King in the north. Gascoigne insisted that they had the right to be tried by thier peers. Both men were subsequently executed.