A sampler by Rachel Bailey 1827

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A sampler by Rachel Bailey 1827
worked in black and shades of green, blue and cream silks with "Answer Of His Late Most Gracious Majesty King George III to Lord Grenville When Applied to on the Catholic Bill March 1807..." surmounted by a crown and surrounded by a naturalistic flower border including fuchsia, pansies, harebells--17½ x 19in. (44 x 47cm), framed and glazed
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Lot Essay

The text continues "... My Lord, I am one of those that Respect an Oath,- I have Firmness sufficient to Quit my Throne and Retire to a Cottage, or to Place My Neck upon a Block on a Scaffold, if my people required it, but I have not resolution to Break an Oath, which I took in the most sacred manner at my Coronation"

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