KING CHARLES I IS THAT HE WAS 5'6"
	TALL AT THE START OF HIS REIGN,
	BUT ONLY 4'8" AT THE END OF IT...
	BECAUSE OF...

	Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protecteur of England
	PURITAN
	Born in 1599 and died in 1658
	SEPTEMBER
	Was at first
	ONLY
	MP for Huntingdon
	BUT THEN
	He led the Ironside Cavalry at Marston Moor
	in 1644 and won.
	Then he founded the new model model army
	And praise be, beat the Cavaliers at Naisby
	And the King fled up North like a bat to the
	Scots.

  SPOKEN: BUT UNDER THE TERMS OF JOHN PIMM'S SOLEMN
	LEAGUE AND COVENANT, THE SCOTS HANDED KING
	CHARLES I OVER TO...

	Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protecteur of England
	AND HIS WARTS
	Born in 1599 and died in 1658
	SEPTEMBER
	But alas
	OY VAY!
	Disagreement then broke out
	BETWEEN
	The Presbyterian Parliament and the Military
	who meant
	To have an independent bent.
	And so...

	The 2nd Civil War broke out
	And the Roundhead ranks
	Faced the Cavaliers at Preston Banks
	And the King lost again, silly thing
	STUPID GIT

  SPOKEN: AND CROMWELL SEND COLONEL PRIDE TO PURGE THE
	HOUSE OF COMMONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN ROYALISTS
	LEAVING BEHIND ONLY THE RUMP PARLIAMENT...

	Which appointed a High Court at Westminster
	Hall
	To indict Charles I for...tyranny
	OOOOHHH!
	Charles was sentenced to death
	Even though he refused to accept that the court
	had...jurisdiction
	SAY GOODBYE TO HIS HEAD

	Poor King Charles laid his head on the block
	JANUARY 1649
	Down came the axe, and...

  SPOKEN: IN THE SILENCE THAT FOLLOWED, THE ONLY SOUND
	THAT COULD BE HEARD WAS A SOLITARY GIGGLE,
	FROM...

	Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protecteur of England
	OLE
	Born in 1599 and died in 1658
	SEPTEMBER
	Then he smashed
	IRELAND
	Set up the Commonwealth
	AND MORE
	He crushed the Scots at Worcester
	And beat the Dutch at sea
	In 1653 and then
	He dissolved the Rump Parliament
	And with Lambert's consent
	Wrote the instrument of Government
	Under which Oliver was Proctector at last
	The end