Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man, formerly known as John Hampden NPG 146

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Peter Scheemakers

One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament. Ship Money was a tax sometimes levied on coastal towns in wartime to pay for ships to protect the country from invasion. Charles, no longer receiving money from Parliament, in 1635 extended the Ship Money tax to include inland towns and counties. This attempt to create a new form of taxation without parliamentary sanction was resisted by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.