'Now I conclude commanding fame to show Brave Digby's worthy deed, that all may know He lov'd his king, may all so loyal prove And like this Digby to their king show love.' Many portraits of Charles I. were published in tracts about this time. One of the best is contained in a poetical welcome to the King on his return from Scotland. '_King Charles his Entertainment and Londons Loyaltie_,' 1641, contains a precept issued by the Lord Mayor, directing how the aldermen and citizens shall meet the King, on his return from Scotland, at Shoreditch Church, and conduct him to the Guildhall to a banquet, and afterwards to Westminster. There is also a a very spirited woodcut of a City trumpeter in this pamphlet, which is copied above. City entertainments to sovereigns and princes have always been fruitful occasions for illustrated newspapers. [Illustration: CITY TRUMPETER, 1641.] The wholesale executions that used to take place at this period would astonish the modern newspaper reader. Sometimes as many as twenty-four persons were executed in one day at Tyburn. '_A Coppy of the Prisoners judgement condemned to dy, from Nugate on Monday the 13 of December, 1641_,' gives an account of eight Jesuits and several other prisoners who were executed. A descriptive list is given of the condemned, and amongst them are the following:-- 'Charles James, an handsome gentile young man, was convicted for Robery and Burglary. 'John Hodskins, a fine Scholler, a pretty fellow, yet wanted grace. 'John Davis, a lusty stout personable man. 'Francis Middlefield, a pretty youth, and a good Scholler, convicted of felonie.' Several highwaymen, horse-stealers, and coiners, are also included in this gloomy list, which is adorned with a woodcut of an execution.