Andrew Melville upbraids a bishop at the court of James VI, Henry Marriott Paget

The image appears to have been inspired by the well-known story of how melville took james by the sleeve, telling him, "sir, as divers tymes befor, sa now again, i maun tell ye, ye are god's sillie vassal; thair are twa kings and twa kingdomes in scotland: thair is king james, the heid of the commonweal; and thair is chryst jesus, and his kingdome the kirk, whase subject james the saxt is, and of whase kingdom nocht a king, nor a lord, nor a heid, but a member. ".