Kentish men, keep your King, Long swords and brave hearts bring, Down with the rebels, and slit their crop ears! Hell now is wanting rogues, Send there the canting dogges, Ride to the scurry, my Kent cavaliers! God and our King for grace, Leave now your wives’ embrace, Up and avenge all their insults for years! Ironsides! Who’s afear? Pack ’em to Lucifer, Ride to the scurry, my Kent cavaliers! The name “Kentish,” if introduced with such intention, would help in serving to recall in the stately mansions of the squires of Kent, and in many a humble yeoman’s home as well, why there were vacant places round the family board. * * * * * A brief comparison between Cromwell’s _Kentish_ and her lineal successor of our own day, His Majesty’s ship the _Kent_, may be of interest in conclusion. The _Kentish_ was of 601 tons burthen, 187 feet in length of hull, 32½ feet beam, and 15 feet draught. Our modern _Kent_ is 440 feet between perpendiculars (463½ feet over all), 66 feet beam, and 24½ feet depth. The first _Kent_, under full sail, might perhaps do nine knots at her best speed; the present _Kent_, with her engines of 22,000 horse power, has done twenty-three knots an hour. The first _Kent’s_ guns, forty in number, were identical with the guns that Queen Elizabeth’s fleet carried when it fought the Spanish Armada; the same kind of guns, practically, that Henry the Eighth’s _Mary Rose_ had on board when she capsized at Spithead. The same quaint old mediæval style of nomenclature, indeed, was still in vogue for the _Kentish’s_ guns. They were called culverins (18-pounders), demi-culverins (9-pounders), and sakers (6-pounders). The heaviest of them, the culverins, weighed 48 cwt. each, and were 5½ inches in calibre. The _Kentish’s_ guns also were of brass, specially cast for her; refounded, for the most part, according to an existing Ordnance order, out of condemned pieces and captured Royalist cannon. According to a curious manuscript list of the ship’s equipment, the _Kentish_ when ready for sea had on board as her establishment of war stores—908 round shot, 468 double-headed shot, 100 barrels of powder, 60 muskets; and for close-quarter fighting, 7 blunderbusses, 60 pikes, and 40 hatchets. The modern _Kent_ carries as her main armament 6-inch quick-firing steel guns, each firing 100-pounder shot and shell, and able to discharge, each piece in half a minute, heavier metal than the whole broadside (270 lb.) of the original _Kentish_. The old ship, of course, was built of wood, oak timber; most of which, as a curious fact, seems to have been cut on the confiscated estates of delinquent Royalists in the County of Kent. The new _Kent_, built of steel, and with 4-inch Krupp armour along her water line, cost to complete for sea upwards of three-quarters of a million sterling; the _Kentish_ frigate, guns and all, cost £5000, or in