"I NOTICED ARGUS PEARCHT." _Drawn by_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 52 GAMMER GURNEY. _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE 58 MORE READING WYNKYN DE WORDE. _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE _and_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 70 THE JEW. _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE 76 THE CARDINAL'S PROCESSION. _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE 87 "I FELL INTO DISGRACE FOR HOLDING SPEECH WITH MERCY OVER THE PALES." _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE _and_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 110 "LORD SANDS SANG US A NEW BALLAD." _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE 120 "THE KING WAS HERE YESTERDAY." _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE _and_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 142 "SHE COMETH HITHER FROM HEVER CASTLE." _Drawn by_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 148 THE BEGGAR-WOMAN'S DOG. _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE 161 IN THE GARDEN. _Drawn by_ HERBERT RAILTON 165 "AND SAYTH, LOW BOWING AS HE SPOKE, 'MADAM, MY LORD IS GONE.'" _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE _and_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 172 "IN COMETH A PURSUIVANT." _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE 203 THE STAIRS. _Drawn by_ HERBERT RAILTON 210 "HIS FEARLESSE PASSAGE THROUGH THE TRAITOR'S GATE." _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE _and_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 220 GILLIAN AND THE FLOUR SACKS. _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE 237 MORE RETURNING FROM HIS TRIAL. _Drawn by_ JOHN JELLICOE _To face_ 258 "NOR LOOKT I UP TILL ANEATH THE BRIDGE-GATE." _Drawn by_ HERBERT RAILTON _To face_ 262 Introduction It is not always from the closest and most accurate historian that we receive the truest picture of an age or of a character. The artist gives a more real picture than the photographer; and it needs imagination and sympathy, as well as labour and research, to make a hero of old time live again to-day. The minutest investigation will hardly better the vivid reality of Scott's James I. or Charles II., or portray more truly than Mr. Shorthouse has done the fragile yet fascinating personality of Charles I. Yet to say this is not to undervalue history or to contemn the labour of true students. Rather, without their aid we cannot rightly see the past at all: it comes to us only with the distortions of our own prejudice and our narrow modern outlook. We need both the work of the scholar and the imagination of the artist. Without the first we could not behold the past, without the second we could not understand it.