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Satire on the way in which advantage could be taken of the bankruptcy laws or of the periodical acts for the relief of debts

3rd August 1976

rejects a plea for help from Turkey

from the Queen's Garden

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Prince Rupert, taken from a series of cigarette cards Product:Postcard Satire on the way inPrince Rupert of the Rhine (1619 1682), a noted German soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist. Rupert was a younger son of the German prince Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of James I of England. Thus Rupert was the nephew of King Charles I of England, who created him Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness, and the first cousin of King Charles II of England. Taken from