[Illustration: SQUARE CAPS TURNED INTO ROUND HEADS, 1642.]
The partisans of the Parliament faction appear to have been much more active pamphleteers than the Cavaliers. '_Square Caps turned into Round Heads, or the Bishop's Vindication and the Brownist's conviction, being a Dialogue between Time and Opinion; showing the folly of the one and the worthinesse of the other_,' is a tract with an illustration representing Opinion turning a wheel, on which are five square caps and five round heads, while Time, with his scythe and hourglass, holds converse with Opinion. Under the woodcut are the following lines:--
'Time doth Opinion call unto accompt, Who turns the Bishop's downe and Roundheads mount; Upon her lofty wheels their Noddles are, But her Camelion feedeth on his aire.'
'_Cornucopia, or Room for a Ram head, wherein is described the dignity of the Ram head above the Roundhead or Rattlehead_,' is another tract, with a woodcut caricature representing a woman attempting to saw the horns from a man's head. The letterpress consists of a dialogue between a man and his wife, wherein the man humorously praises horns. It was a favourite joke to represent the Puritan as a 'cuckoldy Roundhead.'
Another satirical pamphlet has a woodcut representing Cavaliers and Roundheads exciting their dogs to fight. It is entitled, '_A Dialogue or rather a Parly between Prince Rupert's Dogge whose name is Puddle, and Tobies Dog whose name is Pepper, &c._ _Whereunto is added the challenge which Prince Griffin's Dog, called Towzer, hath sent to Prince Rupert's Dog Puddle, in the behalfe of honest Pepper, Tobie's Dog. Moreover, the said Prince Griffin is newly gone to Oxford to lay the wager, and to make up the Match._' In this satire, which is very highly flavoured, both Cavaliers and Roundheads are pelted with very vigorous epithets, but in the end the Roundhead dog is converted by his opponent, and seals his recantation in a very striking manner.
There is a tirade against the Jesuits entitled, '_A Peece of ordnance invented by a Jesuite, for Cowards that fight by Whisperings, and raise jealousies to overthrow both Church and State, which with the help of a private Ensign in the Cabbinet Councell, or Westminster Hall is able to doe more mischiefe at twentie miles distance, than a whole Regiment of stout Souldiers, at Musket-shot_. _Which grievance is by way of Remonstrance humbly presented to the consideration of the Parliament._' This tract has a woodcut of a man firing a cannon formed of the figure of a man.