2-721-468 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hampden', (c1594- 1643), 1830. John Hampden (c1594- 1643) English politician and leading parliamentarian involved in challenging the authority of Charles I of England before the English Civil War, he stood trial in 1637 for his refusal to be taxed for ship money and died at the Battle of Chalgrove Field. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]