During the civil war and the government of Cromwell, 1642 to 1660, nine in ten of all the satirical prints that have been preserved are on the Puritan side. A great number of them were aimed at the Welsh, whose brogue seems to have been a standing resource with the mirth-makers of that period, as the Irish is at present. The wild roystering ways of the Cavaliers, their debauchery and license, furnished subjects. The cruelties practiced by Prince Rupert suggested the annexed illustration, in which the author endeavored to show "the cruell Impieties of Blood-thirsty Royalists and blasphemous Anti-Parliamentarians under the Command of that inhumane Prince Rupert, Digby, and the rest, wherein the barbarous Crueltie of our Civill uncivill Warres is briefly discovered." Beneath the portrait of England's wolf are various narratives of his bloody deeds. One picture exhibits the plundering habits of the mercenaries on the side of the king in Ireland. A soldier is represented armed and equipped with the utensils that appertain to good forage: on his head a three-legged pot, hanging from his side a duck, a spit with a goose on it held in his left hand as a musket, a dripping-pan on his arm as a shield, a hay-fork in his right hand for a rest, with a string of sausages for a match, a long artichoke at his side for a sword, bottles of canary suspended from his belt, slices of toast for shoe-strings, and two black pots at his garters. This picture may have been called forth by an item in a news-letter of 1641, wherein it was stated that such "great store of pilidges" was daily brought into Drogheda that a cow could be bought there for five shillings and a horse for twelve. [Illustration: Charles II. and the Scotch Presbyterians, 1651. "_Presbyter._ Come to the grinstone, Charles; 'tis now too late To recolect, 'tis presbiterian fate. "_King._ Yon Covenant pretenders, must I bee The subject of your Tradgie Comedie? "_Jockey._ I, Jockey, turne the stone of all your plots, For none turnes faster than the turne-coat Scots. "_Presbyter._ We for our ends did make thee king, be sure, Not to rule us, we will not that endure. "_King._ You deep dissemblers, I know what you doe, And, for revenges sake, I will dissemble too."] The abortive attempt of Charles II., after the execution of his father, to unite the Scots under his sceptre, and by their aid place himself upon the throne of England, called forth the caricature annexed, in which an old device is put to a new use. A large number of verses explain the picture, though they begin by declaring: "This Embleme needs no learned Exposition; The World knows well enough the sad condition Of regal Power and Prerogative. Dead and dethron'd in _England_, now alive In _Scotland_, where they seeme to love the Lad, If hee'l be more obsequious than his Dad, And act according to Kirk Principles, More subtile than were Delphic Oracles."