Paradise and the Peri St Anne's Church this plate is most humbly

this plate is most humbly inscribed by a lover of trade

wearing a ruff and a red cloak over his ecclesiastical robes

punning on the word 'wood'

with boats and barges on the River Thames below

August 1966

Paradise and the Peri St Anne's Church this plate is most humbly'Paradise and the Peri', 1874. Mr Disraeli is taken by the wings of happiness. The General Election of the 5th March 1874 had seen the Conservatives, under the leadership of Mr Disraeli, surge into power with a majority of 56. Mr Gladstone's Liberal party, in power for the past five and half years, now faced time in opposition. From Punch, or the London Charivari, February 28, 1874.