_His pope-like domineering, And some other tricks appearing, Provok'd Sir Edward Deering To blame the old prelate. Alas! poore prelate!_ _Some say he was in hope To bring England againe to th' pope; But now he is in danger of an axe or a rope. Farewell, old Canterbury. Alas! poore Canterbury!_ Wren, bishop of Ely, was another of the more obnoxious of the prelates, and there was hardly less joy among the popular party when he was committed to the Tower in the course of the year 1641. Another song, in verse similar to the last, contains a general review of the demerits of the members of the prelacy, under the title of "The Bishops Last Good-night." At the head of the broadside on which it is printed stand two satirical woodcuts, but it must be confessed that the words of the song are better than the engraving. The bishop of Ely, we are told, had just gone to join his friend Laud in the Tower-- _Ely, thou hast alway to thy power Left the church naked in a storme and showre, And now for 't thou must to thy old friend i' th' Tower. To the Tower must Ely; Come away, Ely._ A third obnoxious prelate was bishop Williams. Williams was a Welshman who had been high in favour with James I., but he had given offence to the government of Charles I., and been imprisoned in the Tower during the earlier part of that king's reign. He was released by the parliament in 1640, and so far regained the favour of king Charles, that he was raised to the archbishopric of York in the year following. When the civil war began, he retired into Wales, and garrisoned Conway for the king. Williams's warlike behaviour was the source of much mirth among the Roundheads. In 1642 was published a large caricature on the three classes to whom the parliamentarians were especially hostile--the royalist judges, the prelates, and the ruffling cavaliers; represented here, as we are told in writing in the copy among the king's pamphlets, by judge Mallet, bishop Williams, and colonel Lunsford. These three figures are placed in as many compartments with doggrel verses under each. That of bishop Williams is copied in our cut No. 178. The bishop is armed cap-à-pie, and in the distance behind him are seen on one side his cathedral church, and on the other his war-horse. The verses beneath it contain an allusion to this prelate's Welsh extraction in the orthography of some of the words:-- _Oh, sir, I'me ready, did you never heere How forward I have byn t'is many a yeare, T'oppose the practice dat is now on foote, Which plucks my brethren up both pranch and roote? My posture and my hart toth well agree To fight; now plud is up: come, follow mee._ [Illustration: _No. 178. The Church Militant._]