aces Hampton Court.
Give Wolsey then a tender thought.
His main ambition that the King
Should be supreme in everything;
Thomas And Thomas Cromwell followed suit
Cromwell To make his master absolute
Head of the Church within his realm.
These two most able at the helm;
But not with skill enough endued
To 'scape their King's ingratitude.
Despotical the King's power grew.
He's England's Pope by Act of Su-
Premacy; as, to gain divorce,
The foreign Pope is banned perforce.
1537 Now Bluff King Harry gives the Monks
A series of most awful funks;
Three thousand odd of their domains
He 'collars' for his Courtiers' gains.

Edward VI. Edward Six to the throne succeeds
1547-1553 A pious youth of goodly deeds;
One, well known in the Capital,
The Blue Coat School (Christ's Hospital).

Mary Queen Mary One, in Smithfield Square,
1553-1558 At Oxford, Gloucester and elsewhere,
Burned poor Martyrs by the score;
The Romish faith she would restore.

Elizabeth Hail now to thee our good Queen Bess,
1558-1603 Garbed in the puffed and padded dress,
Farthingale and starched up frills,
Meaning heavy laundry bills.
Od's Bodikins; what monstrous ruffs,
What gowns of rich embroidered stuffs
Piped and scolloped, trimmed with furs,
And shaped like huge gasometers.
Now we've warfare of the Creeds,
For their thoughts all Europe bleeds;
Each party seeks by force to make
The other side its faith forsake.
Spain the Great Power of those days
In these contentions first part plays.

[Illustration: IRON JELLOIDS The Great Tonic

PLYMOUTH HOE BOWLING CLUB]

Drake Drake at bowls on Plymouth Hoe
Left his game to meet this foe
And came home laden we are told
With seachests full of Spanish gold.
Armada In fifteen-eight-eight Armada strong
1588 From