In the verses that follow there is to be found one of the few explicit justifications of the execution of Charles I. that the lighter literature of the Commonwealth affords: "But _Law and Justice_ at the last being done On the hated Father, now they love the Son." The poet also taunts the Scots with having first stirred up the English to "doe Heroick Justice" on the late king, and then adopting the heir on condition of his giving _their_ Church the same fell supremacy which Laud had claimed for the Church of England. The Ironsides of Cromwell soon accomplished the caricaturist's prediction: "But this religious mock we all shall see, Will soone the downfall of their Babel be." We find the pencil and the pen of the satirist next employed in exhibiting the young king fleeing in various ludicrous disguises before his enemies. An interesting caricature published during the civil wars aimed to cast back upon the Malignants the ridicule implied in the nickname of Roundhead as applied to the Puritans. It contained figures of three ecclesiastics, "Sound-head, Rattle-head, and Round-head." Sound-head, a minister sound in the Puritan faith, hands a Bible to Rattle-head, a personage meant for Laud, half bishop and half Jesuit. On the other side is the genuine Round-head, a monk with shorn pate, who presents to Rattle-head a crucifix, and points to a monastery. Rattle-head rejects the Bible, and receives the crucifix. Over the figures is written: "See heer, Malignants Foolerie Retorted on them properly, The Sound-head, Round-head, Rattle-head, Well placed, where best is merited." Below are other verses in which, of course, Rattle-head and Round-head are belabored in the thorough-going, root-and-branch manner of the time, _Atheist_ and _Arminian_ being used as synonymous terms: "See heer, the Rattle-heads most Rotten Heart, Acting the Atheists _or_ Arminians part." In looking over the broadsheets of that stirring period, we are struck by the absence of the mighty Name that must have been uppermost in every mind and oftenest on every tongue--that of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. A few caricatures were executed in Holland, in which "The General" and "Oliver" and "The Protector" were weakly satirized; but as most of the plates in that age were made to serve various purposes, and were frequently altered and redated, it is not certain that any of them were circulated in England during Cromwell's life-time. English draughtsmen produced a few pictures in which the Protector was favorably depicted dissolving the Long Parliament, but their efforts were not remarkable either with pen or pencil. The Protector may have relished, and Bunyan may have written, the verses that accompanied some of them: "Full twelve years and more these Rooks they have sat to gull and to cozen all true-hearted People; Our Gold and our Silver has made them so fat that they lookt more big and mighty than Paul's Steeple."