Therapon,
Fanciful history sells so much better than real history. Publishers have long known that. In Rollins' 'Cavalier and Puritan', p. 77, is reprinted a ballad by Martin Parker, "An Exact Description of the Manner of How His Majesty and His Nobles Went to the Parliament on Monday, April 13, 1640" (ZN701). It was printed at the Horse-shoe in West Smithfield (by Ed. Griffith's widow). It had been entered in the Stationers' Register on March 20 (Rollins' 'Analytical Index', #2548). Having copies ready to sell to the observers of the parade at the time was great for sales. Parades are parades, seen one, seen them all, and we need not bother with the facts, they just mess up our pretty pictures.