<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The wonders of Westminster-Hall!, or, Courts of law without a covering, and lawyers' fears without foundation : causes without an issue, and an issue without a cause [graphic]</dc:title><dc:date>[1785]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"Judges, lawyers, and others rush headlong from Westminster Hall. Three women are among the crowd, one of whom has fallen on her back. In the background is a Gothic doorway, on each side of which are two windows; through the upper left window appears a maidservant with a mop. Beneath the title is printed: 'Or, Courts of Law without a Covering, and Lawyers' Fears without Foundation; 'Causes without an Issue, and an Issue without a Cause'. This is followed by two quotations from Virgil, below which are verses printed in five columns"--British Museum catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Caption title from letterpress printed below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Title followed by two quotations from Virgil.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate mark cannot be determined.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate is early state, before alterations.</dc:description><dc:description>Five columns of verse below the title: God prosper long our noble King ... However strange, 'tis strictly true, That thus a simple Wench, Did - (what no other Power could do) - Drive Mansfield from the Bench!'.</dc:description><dc:description>Publication statement etched in plate below image:  Published as the act directs, 28th Aprl. 1785, by Woodman &amp; Mutlow, No. 30 Russel Court, Covent Garden.</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Hall: exterior court of the King's Bench -- Courts -- Panic -- Maidservants -- Literature: quotations from Virgil, 70-19 BC. -- Incidents: panic at the King's Bench, April 22, 1785 -- Legal costume -- Allusion to Charles Hughes, fl. 1785 -- Allusion to Philip Astley, 1742-1814.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>