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<HEAD>AN ACCOUNT OF THE Several Impre&s;&s;ions, or Editions of King CHARLES the Martyr's mo&s;t Excellent Book, INTITULED, EIKON BASILIKE. THAT WERE Printed without the Prayers at the End, and &s;ome with the Prayers, with a Letter tran&s;lated from the Original. Written by Mr. <HI>William Levet,</HI> Page of the Bed-Chamber in Ordinary to His Maje&s;ty King CHARLES the I. he having ob&s;erved His Maje&s;ty oftentimes writing the &s;aid Book.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The&s;e <HI>28</HI> of the fir&s;t Impre&s;&s;ions or Editions of the King's Book, are Printed without the Prayers.</HEAD>
<ITEM>THE 1&s;t. Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1648. la&s;t pag. 187. Contents one leaf at the end.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 269. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 269. Contents three leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 269. Contents three leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 269. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 268. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. Reprinted in <HI>R. M.</HI> 1648. la&s;t pag. 268. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 270. Contents three leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. with only the Lady <HI>Eliz.</HI> Relation la&s;t pag. 302. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 242.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 302. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. Reprinted for <HI>James Young</HI> 1648. la&s;t pag. 268. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 164. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 187. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 225. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 342. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>17 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed 1648. no Pages or Figures. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>18 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 204. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed at <HI>Paris</HI> Engli&s;h 1649. la&s;t pag. 196. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 264. with Epitaphs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 195. Cantents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="2" REF="2">22 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. in Latin, la&s;t pag. 272. with Apothegms.</ITEM>
<ITEM>23 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed at the <HI>Hague</HI> by <HI>Sam. Brown</HI> 1649. in Lat. la&s;t pag. 272. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>24 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. at the <HI>Hague</HI> for <HI>Williams</HI> and <HI>Eglesfield,</HI> Lat. la&s;t pag. 272. Cont. two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>25 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed in Latin 1649. la&s;t pag. 258.</ITEM>
<ITEM>26 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed with the Works 1649. la&s;t pag. 182.</ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed at the <HI>Hague</HI> by <HI>Sam. Brown</HI> 1649. la&s;t pag. 318. Contents four leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>28 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed for <HI>R. Roy&s;ton</HI> 1681. la&s;t pag. 256. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The&s;e <HI>27</HI> of the Second Impre&s;&s;ions or Editions of the King's Book Printed with the Prayers.</HEAD>
<ITEM>THE 1&s;t. Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 270. the Prayers added in 1649.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed 1648. la&s;t pag. 354.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 436. Contents two leaves with the Additions of the Prayers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 258.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. very large, the be&s;t printed 1649. the la&s;t pag. 263. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 236. with Apothegms.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 247. Prayers added.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 269. Contents three leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. with Apothegms.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. in <HI>Dutch.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. in <HI>French,</HI> la&s;t pag. 442. Contents one leaf and half.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. in <HI>French,</HI> la&s;t pag. 269. Contents two leaves, with &s;ome of his Work.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 230. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. Contents one leaf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 226.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 175.</ITEM>
<ITEM>17 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed 1649. la&s;t pag. 354.</ITEM>
<ITEM>18 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed at the <HI>Hague</HI> by <HI>Sam. Browne. Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae</HI> the Works of King <HI>Charles</HI> the I. without date. La&s;t pag. 324.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. printed at the <HI>Hague</HI> by <HI>Sam. Brown</HI> 1651. la&s;t pag. 324.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. of the King's Works in 2 Vol. printed 1695.</ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed at the <HI>Hague</HI> by <HI>Sam. Browne.</HI> in 1657. the King's Works.</ITEM>
<ITEM>22 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. printed in 1651. with the King's Works.</ITEM>
<ITEM>23 Impre&s;&s;ion in 24^o. Reprinted in 1649. <HI>Reg. M.</HI> la&s;t pag. 181. Contents two leaves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>24 Impre&s;&s;ion in 12^o. of the King's Works printed in 1650. at the <HI>Hague</HI> by <HI>Sam. Browne,</HI> with divers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> His Maje&s;tys Prayers, whereof the three la&s;t u&s;ed by him in the time of his Re&s;traint, were delivered <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> at his death, from whom they were taken away by the Officers of the Army And among&s;t the&s;e &s;ix Prayers that entitled to be &s;aid in Time of Captivity, and taken out<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Sir <HI>Phillip Sidney</HI>'s <HI>Arcadia</HI> is not one of them, however it came to be printed in &s;ome of them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>25 Impre&s;&s;ion in Folio being the whole Works of King <HI>Charles</HI> the I. and by Order of King <HI>Charles</HI> the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 Impre&s;&s;ion in 8^o. large printed in 1685. la&s;t pag. 272. for <HI>R. Roy&s;ton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Impre&s;&s;ion in Folio being the whole Works of King <HI>Charles</HI> the I. and by Order of King Ja<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the II. printed in 1686.</ITEM>
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<P>Place this at the End of the King's Works.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>UPON a late Di&s;pute concerning the Author of the Book, Entituled, <HI>Eikon Ba&s;ilike,</HI> it was by &s;ome affirmed, that they had the fir&s;t Impre&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid Book with Prayers as they are now Printed and added to the End thereof, (by one of the Impre&s;&s;ions in <HI>12^o.</HI> of the King's Works, printed in <HI>1650.</HI> at the <HI>Hague</HI> by <HI>Sam. Browne;</HI> in the &s;aid Book are divers of his Maje&s;ty's Prayers, whereof the three la&s;t u&s;ed by him in the time of his Re&s;traint, were delivered to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London</HI> at his death, from whom they were taken away by the Officers of the Army, and among&s;t the&s;e Six Prayers, that entitled to be &s;aid in Time of Captivity, and taken out of Sir <HI>Phillip Sidney</HI>'s <HI>Arcadia,</HI> is not one of them, however it came to be printed and added in &s;ome Editions of them.) As to which being de&s;irous to know the Truth as well for my own as others &s;atisfaction, I endeavoured to make as full a &s;earch as I could, and to that end, did not only enquire at the Book&s;ellers Shops in <HI>Lon|don</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> but as far as my Intere&s;t would permit me, did cau&s;e to be made &s;earch both in Private Libraries of &s;everal Gentlemen, and Divines, and Publick ones at <HI>Oxford,</HI> &amp;c. (having before &s;een &s;everal of tho&s;e which were affirmed as afore&s;aid to be the fir&s;t Edition) where I found the above|mentioned Twenty Eight &s;everal Impre&s;&s;ions or Editions of the King's Book without the Prayers, and the Twenty Seven Editions with the Prayers added at the End of the &s;aid Book; all which being tran&s;mitted to me, I took the &s;aid Account with all the exactne&s;s I could, by noting (le&s;t there &s;hould happen any mi&s;take) the &s;ize of the Volumn, the time of Printing, the number of Leaves, the Contents did con&s;i&s;t of, and the number of the Pages, all which I te&s;tifie under my hand.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>At the <HI>Turks-head</HI> in <HI>Fleet-&s;treet,</HI>
<DATE><HI>June</HI> the 15th. 1693.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>SAMUEL KEBLE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>IMPRIMATUR.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Junii 17. 1693.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Guil. Lanca&s;ter.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>I &s;hall in&s;ert a Letter, tran&s;cribed from the Original, which I have by me, written by Mr. <HI>Levet.</HI></P>
<P>The Super&s;cription of the &s;aid Letter runs thus,
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<HEAD>For <HI>Seymor Bowman,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> near the Arch in <HI>Lincolns Inn-Fields.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dear Brother,</SALUTE></OPENER>
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<P>Licen&s;ed, <HI>May</HI> the 10th. 1691.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By <HI>Z. I&s;ham.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>YOurs of the 21th. of this in&s;tant <HI>April</HI> I received, and one Letter before that to the &s;ame effect, <HI>viz.</HI> To give a true Account of my knowledge of that unparallel'd Book, which his Sacred Maje&s;ty, of ever ble&s;&s;ed Memory, King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t (murdered by his own Rebellious Subjects before his own Palace at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> with all the violent and malitious Circum&s;tances that Wicked men could invent) which Book, of my certain Knowledge, I can depo&s;e, was truly His own, having ob&s;erved His Maje&s;ty oftentimes writing His Royal Re&s;entments of the bold
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and in&s;olent behaviour of His Souldiers (His Rebellious Subjects) when they had Him in ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> cu&s;tody. I waited on His Maje&s;ty as Page of the Bed-Chamber in ordinary during all the t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of His Solitudes, (except when I was forced from Him) and e&s;pecially being nominated by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Maje&s;ty to be one of His Servants, among&s;t others, that &s;hould attend Him during the Tre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> at <HI>Newport</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> had the happine&s;s to read the &s;ame oftentimes in Manu&s;cri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> under His Maje&s;ty's own Hand, being plea&s;ed to leave it in the Window in His own Bed-chamb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> where I was always obliged to attend His Maje&s;ty's coming thither. But the Treaty be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ended in few days after, the Souldiers with one to conduct them, by name Mr. <HI>Anthony Mild<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> then Cup-bearer, came to the Bed-chamber, about Two of the Clock in the Night, and knocked <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the Door, and one Mr. <HI>Herbert,</HI> Mr. <HI>Kirk,</HI> and my &s;elf having &s;ome hint of their Intenti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> were watching in an inward Room, and hearing the noi&s;e, went into His Maje&s;ty's B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">-Chamber, and asked, who they were that dur&s;t di&s;turb His Maje&s;ty at that un&s;ea&s;onable tim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the Night, who an&s;wered, they were &s;ent to tell the King, He mu&s;t ri&s;e and go with them. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> acquainting His Maje&s;ty with their De&s;ign, He was plea&s;ed to command us to tell them, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> would go with them, but it was not His u&s;ual hour to ri&s;e &s;o &s;oon, we again acquainted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Souldiers with His Maje&s;ty's An&s;wer. They in&s;tead of complying with His Maje&s;ty, bid us <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Him, if He did not ri&s;e pre&s;ently, they mu&s;t force Him to it: His Maje&s;ty only &s;aid, if I m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> give me my Cloaths, and &s;o He immediately aro&s;e. (Here you may ob&s;erve a mirror of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">+tience in a di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince.) During the time of His Maje&s;ty's making him&s;elf ready, he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">+cern'd him&s;elf only how to &s;ecure this Book of his, and a &s;mall Cabinet, wherein he &s;ecured <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Letters to his Queen, who was then beyond the Sea, and His Maje&s;ty having procured a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> for me from the Governour, that I &s;hould wait on him there; He gave me in charge this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Book and &s;mall Cabinet, which I faithfully pre&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty's own hands that Nigh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Hur&s;t-Ca&s;tle.</HI> But the Governour, by what information is too tedious to in&s;ert here at this ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and therefore I omit it, did on the <HI>Saturday</HI> bani&s;h me out of the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>I &s;hould have &s;ent you a Relation which I had from <HI>Roy&s;ton,</HI> the King's Printer, for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Printing the &s;aid Book by His Maje&s;ty's e&s;pecial Command, brought to him by a Divine, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> not to be<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">By <HI>Printed,</HI> is to be under&s;tood, <HI>Publi&s;hed.</HI></NOTE> printed till after the King's death, which he ob&s;erved accordingly, for w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Cromwel</HI> &s;ent for him to <HI>Whitehall,</HI> not only promi&s;ing Rewards, but al&s;o threatning Pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">+ment, if he would not deny, that he printed it by His Maje&s;ty's Order, which he refu&s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> do, did impri&s;on him for about a Fortnight, but &s;eeing he could not work upon him, rele<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> him; which is all at pre&s;ent from</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Savernack</HI> Park near <HI>Marlborough,</HI>
<DATE>Apr. 29. 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Affectionate Brother, To &s;erve you <HI>WILLIAM LEVET</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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