American Toby Jug Museum 

Vicar of Bray character jug modeled by Charles J. Noke and Harry Fenton, and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, between 1936-1960. "And this is law, I will maintain Unto my dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, I will be the vicar of Bray, sir." The song, which is usually ascribed to the reign of George I in the eighteenth century, relates how this canny Vicar retained his little parish on the Thames near Maidenhead in Berkshire by sailing with the prevailing religious winds. Such fickle attitudes would have been adopted by many a clergyman during the course of English history, as the preferences in religion swayed between Catholicism and Protestantism during the successive reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth I, as well as the equally changeable religious climes of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, James II, and William and Mary.