"In Eighty-eight, Spayne, arm'd with potent might, Against our peacefull Land came on to fight; But windes and waves and fire in one conspire, To help the English, frustrate Spaynes desire. To second that the Pope in counsell sitts, For some rare stratagem they strayne their witts; November's 5th, by powder they decree Great Brytanes state ruinate should bee. But Hee, whose never-slumb'ring Eye did view The dire intendments of this damned crew, Did soone prevent what they did thinke most sure. Thy mercyes, Lord! for evermore endure." This interesting sheet was devised by Samuel Ward, a Puritan preacher of Ipswich, of great zeal and celebrity, who dedicated it, in the fashion of the day, thus: "To God. In memorye of his double deliveraunce from y{e} invincible Navie and y{e} unmatcheable powder Treason, 1605." It was a timely reminder. As we occasionally see in our own day a public man committing the absurdity of replying in a serious strain to a caricature, so, in 1621, the Spanish embassador in London, Count Gondomar, called the attention of the British Government to this engraving, complaining that it was calculated to revive the old antipathy of the English people to the Spanish monarchy. The obsequious lords of the Privy Council summoned Samuel Ward to appear before them. After examining him, they remanded him to the custody of their messenger, whose house was a place of confinement for such prisoners; and there he remained. As there was yet no habeas corpus act known among men, he could only protest his innocence of any ill designs upon the Spanish monarchy, and humbly petition for release. He petitioned first the Privy Council; and they proving obdurate, he petitioned the king. He was set free at last, and he remained for twenty years a thorn in the side of those who dreaded "Spayne and Rome" less than they hated Puritans and Parliaments.