Bill Nye's Comic History of England/Appendix

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Bill Nye's Comic History of England
Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye

Appendix

1625932Bill Nye's Comic History of England — AppendixEdgar Wilson "Bill" Nye

APPENDIX.

WHILE Mr. Nye was prevented from writing by illness, the artist proceeded with the drawing of subjects which would obviously need to be illustrated in the progress of the history.

As the pictures so made are quite numerous, and have merit and humor of their own, independently of the text, they will doubtless be appreciated by readers of the work, for whose benefit they have been inserted in the following pages.

HENRY VIII. PLUNDERING THE CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES
OF THEIR POSSESSIONS.

AFTER THE DEATH OF JANE SEYMOUR, HENRY VIII. TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE SELECTION OF A NEW QUEEN, DECLINING ON ANNE OF CLEVES, A PROTESTANT PRINCESS WITH WHOSE PORTRAIT HE HAD BEEN HIGHLY PLEASED. THE ORIGINAL SO GREATLY DISAPPOINTED HIM THAT HE SOON DIVORCED HER.

EDWARD VI. SUCCESSOR TO HENRY VIII., ÆTAT. TEN YEARS, WHOSE ATTENTION TO HIS STUDIES AND THE GENTLENESS OF HIS DISPOSITION MADE HIM MUCH BELOVED (1547-53)

THE GREAT INFLUX OF GOLD AND SILVER FROM THE NEW WORLD CAUSED AN INCREASE IN THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES (1549).

THE CHERISHED OBJECT OF MARY WAS TO RESTORE THE CATHOLIC RELIGION,
AND HER CHIEF COUNSELLORS WERE BISHOPS WERE GARDINER AND BONNER (1554).

QUEEN ELIZABETH (1558-1603).

SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

QUEEN ELIZABETH SIGNING THE DEATH-WARRANT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, 1587.

DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, MARCH 24, 1603. FOR TEN DAYS PREVIOUS TO HER DEATH SHE LAY UPON THE FLOOR SUPPORTED BY CUSHIONS.

DISCOVERY OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT (1605).

EFFIGY OF GUY FAWKS.

THE SCOTS COULD NOT ENDURE ARCHBISHOP LAUD's RITUALISTIC PRACTICES, AND JENNY GEDDES THREW A STOOL AT HIS HEAD.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH, AT HIS EXECUTION, ASKED TO EXAMINE THE AXE. HE POISED IT, AND RUNNING HIS THUMB ALONG THE EDGE, SAID, WITH A SMILE, "THIS IS SHARP MEDICINE," ETC. (1618).