The coronation of Henry VI of England mb-code 42-23677174 A mackerel seller at Billingsgate

A mackerel seller at Billingsgate

A group of people surround the car to look at it

This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name that says that the practice of debating the opening address to Parliament takes up valuable time that could be spent debating the issues important to the country

this representative of the illiterate masses

The coronation of Henry VI of England mb-code 42-23677174 A mackerel seller at BillingsgateThe coronation of Henry VI of England, 1422 (c1905). The King was crowned in both London and Paris. The last monarch of the House of Lancaster, he ruled with a regent until his majority in 1437, then alone until he was deposed in 1461. Restored to the throne in 1470, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London the following year and murdered. Print published in Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905).