Cardinalls, &c._" DIAMONDS: Knave: "_Pickerin attempts to kill y^e K. in S^t James Park_." The Four: "_Whitebread made Provintiall_." The Ace: "_The consult at the white horse Taverne_." CLUBS: King: "_Cap^t Bedlow examind by y^e secret Comitee of the House of Commons_." The Nine: "_Father Connyers preaching against y^e oathes of alegiance & supremacy_." The Six: "_Cap^t Berry and Alderman Brooks are offer'd_ 500£ _to cast the plot on the Protestants_." SPADES: Queen: "_The Club at y^e Plow Ale house for the murther of S. E. B. Godfree_." The Nine: "_S^r E. B. Godfree strangled, Girald going to stab him_." The Five: "_The body of S^r E. B. G. carry'd to Primrose hill on a horse_." Another pack of historical cards, apparently published in the same reign, but of inferior execution to the former, appears to have related to the Rye-house plot. As these cards are of even greater rarity than those relating to the Popish plot, the following description of four of them--all that I have ever seen--is here given as a stimulus to collectors. Queen of Hearts: "_Thompson one of y^e conspirators taken at Hammersmith_." Knave of Diamonds: "_Rumbold the malster_;" on a label proceeding from his mouth is the inscription, "_They shall dye_." Ace of Clubs: "_Keeling troubled in mind_:" on a label proceeding from his mouth, "_King killing is damnable_." Ace of Spades: "_Hone taken prisoner at Cambridge_." Shortly after the Revolution of 1688, one or two packs of cards appeared with subjects relating to the misgovernment of James II, and the birth of his son the Prince of Wales. In the reign of either Charles II or James II was published a pack of mathematical cards, by Thomas Tuttell, "mathematical instrument-maker to the King's most excellent Majesty." Those cards were designed by Boitard, and engraved by J. Savage; they represent various kinds of mathematical instruments, together with the trades and professions in which they are used. They were evidently "got up" as an advertisement. A few years afterwards, Moxon, also a mathematical instrument-maker, followed suit.