rs which upset the nerves
And squibs with their infernal din
To this date owe their origin.

Charles I. His son Charles One we understand
1625-1649 Ruled England with a grasping hand;
For he was never loth to levy
Taxes burdensome and heavy.
He moved in an expensive set,
Was always heavily in debt;
In fact this monarch with his frills
Was snowed up to the neck with bills.
He was courtly, graceful, distingue,
And when the scaffold came his way
'He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene.'
He had a very taking way
And made his taxed up subjects pay;
And over taxing it is said
This Monarch fairly lost his head.
Petition of The 'Petition of Right' a famous Act,
Right--1628 The Commons from the King exact;
Giving the subject on his own
A remedy against the throne.
First In sixteen-hundred-twenty-one
Newspaper Our first news-sheet began its run;
1621 For twenty years 'twas going strong
Then the first Censor came along.
This journal cribbing from the Dutch
Lacked the smart journalistic touch;
And also photographic views,
'Sporting pars' and 'Stop-press News.'

[Illustration: The Great Struggle in Charles' Time.
King Trying to get Money from Taxpayer.
Creditor Trying to get Money from King]

[Illustration: IRON JELLOIDS The Great Tonic

_THAT QUIET MAN, KNOWN AS THE EARLY PURITAN._]

Cotton Cotton first came from India's shore
1630 In sixteen-thirty, less or more;
Where for three thousand years it grew,
Also in Egypt and Peru.
Grim reading is the note confessing
Gangs went out for Navy pressing,
Forcing many a timid knave
To spend his life on ocean wave.
Ship Money Charles raises the ship money tax;
1636 He thought he only had to 'ax';
When Hampden strenuously objected,
The King was very much affected.
Strafford Earl Strafford ('Thorough') in