The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself : and collected out of his holy word, in both testaments
A 1649 London pamphlet by Thomas Bayly, a royalist-leaning churchman, argues from scripture for the divine right of kings and episcopacy. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a dense repeating border of scrolling foliage, a vertical strip of interlaced arches, a flowered cartouche with a central roundel, and a large decorated initial W framed in curling leaves. A designer could take from them the stiff, symmetrical logic of seventeenth-century type furniture, useful for borders, dividers and drop caps.
