LIST OF PLATES

Charles I. on his Way to Execution, 1649. (By Ernest Crofts, R.A.) Frontispiece

Map of England during the Civil War, 1642-1649. To face p. [50]

The Children of Charles I. (By Miss Margaret I. Dicksee) " [71]

Death of the Princess Elizabeth, Carisbrooke Castle, Sept. 8th, 1650. (By C. W. Cope, R.A.) " [102]

Cromwell Refusing the Crown. (By J. Schex) " [145]

Rescued from the Plague, London, 1665. (By F. W. W. Topham, R.I.) " [209]

Charles II. and Nell Gwynn. (By E. M. Ward, R.A.) " [210]

The Great Fire of London, 1666. (By Stanhope A. Forbes, A.R.A.) " [225]

The Disgrace of Lord Clarendon after his Last Interview with the King in Whitehall Palace, 1667. (By E. M. Ward, R.A.) " [233]

The Ante-Chamber of Whitehall during the Last Moments of Charles II., 1685. (By E. M. Ward, R.A.) " [289]

"After Sedgemoor." (By W. Rainey, R.I.) " [302]

Covenanters Preaching. (By Sir George Harvey, R.S.A.) " [402]

William III. at the Battle of the Boyne. (By Jan Wyck) " [430]

A Lost Cause: Flight of James II. after the Battle of the Boyne, 1690. (By Andrew C. Gow, R.A.) " [433]

The Founding of the Bank of England, 1694. (By George Harcourt) " [471]

Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard. (By Daniel Maclise, R.A.) " [503]

H.R.H. Princess Anne of Denmark, afterwards Queen of England. (By W. Wissing and J. Vandervaart) " [545]

By permission of Messrs. S. Hildesheimer & Co., Ld.

CHARLES I. ON HIS WAY TO EXECUTION, 1649.

From the Picture by ERNEST CROFTS, R.A.

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