And so we love the evidences of sincerity and the pursuit of beauty that our English ancestors made for us, and in our homes of ease, with these things about us, we like to dream of the men and women who created and used these dignified time-kissed old pieces. And in dreaming we forget the frailty and cruelty of courts and rulers and think on the nobility and courage of the lesser yet greater folk who laid the foundation of our country. THE END TABLE OF INTERESTING DATES +James I. 1603 to 1625+ Shakespeare died 1616 First American Colonies, Yorktown, 1607 First American Colonies, Plymouth, 1620 +Charles I. 1625 to 1649+ Inigo Jones, Architect, died 1651 Van Dyck, court painter Sir Francis Crane +Commonwealth Under Cromwell, 1649 to 1660+ +Charles II. 1660 to 1685+ The Restoration Queen Catherine of Braganza, 1660 Bombay Influence and East India Company, 1660 Great Fire of London, 1666 Sir Christopher Wren, 1632-1723 St. Paul's commenced, 1675 Grinling Gibbons, 1648-1726 Mirror Factory, 1673 Chatsworth Built, 1670 +James II. 1685 to 1688+ Revocation of Edict of Nantes, 1685 Spitalfields Silk Factories, 1685 +William and Mary. 1689 to 1702+ Daniel Morot Hampton Court, principal parts built +Queen Anne. 1702 to 1714+