"The poll-tax was to be paid by everyone who had a head."
"The Fire of London, although looked on at first as a calamity, really did a great deal of good. It purified the city from the dregs of the plague and burnt down eighty-nine churches."
"King James I. was very unclean in his habits: he never washed his hands and married Anne of Denmark."
"Henry VIII. was a very good king. He liked plenty of money. He had plenty of wives, and died of ulcers in the legs."
"Edward III. would have been king of France if his mother had been a man."
"The conquest of Ireland was begun in 1170 and is still going on."
"The Pilgrim Fathers were the parents of the young men who took journeys to the Holy Land in the Crusades. They had to give an allowance to their godly sons while they were away in the East. But they never grudged it, because it was an honour to be a Pilgrim's father."
"Sir Philip Sydney gave the last drop of water in his jug to a dying soldier on the field of Waterloo, as was mentioned in the Duke of Wellington's despatches."
"John Milton is the celebrated author of the excursion, and lived chiefly in the lake country near Carlyle."
Teacher: "In whose reign was that palace built?" Scholar: "Edward the Confectioner's."