James Gillray cartoon - "Sir Richard Worse-than-sly, exposing his wife's bottom; - o fye!". Bisset sits atop Worsley's shoulders and looking through a window into a bath-house at his naked wife remarks to him "Charming view of the Back Settlements Sir Richard" . Lady Worseley's maid says to her mistress "Good lack (? sic) my Lady, the Capt'n will see all for nothing" . On a parchment on the ground by Worseley's hat is written "My yoke is easy and my burden light" (Matthew 11:28–30). It was alleged in the court case that Worsley had displayed his wife naked to Bisset at the bath house in Maidstone [ 1]
Maurice George Bisset (1757–1821) of Knighton Gorges on the Isle of Wight , and of Lessendrum in Aberdeen, Scotland, 18th Scottish feudal baron of Lessendrum,[ 2] is famous for his involvement in the scandalous court case involving his mistress Seymour Dorothy Fleming (Lady Worseley) and her husband Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet , of Appuldurcombe House , Isle of Wight. The case was the result of his affair with Lady Worseley, by whom he had a daughter, Jane Seymour Worsley, of whom Richard claimed paternity in order to avoid scandal.
^ "The Life of Lady Worsley". Harewood House. 14 August 2015
^ Temple, William, The Thanage of Fermartyn, including the district commonly called Formartine, its proprietors, with genealogical deductions; its parishes, ministers, Churches, churchyards, antiquities, [etc.], Aberdeen, 1894 [1] summary pedigrees [2]