[BASILIKA]. THE WORKES OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR: With a Collection of DECLARATIONS, TREATIES And other PAPERS concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament. [Including,] The Workes of King Charles I. Defender of the Faith. With the History of His Life: and also of his Triall and Martyrdom. [with,] The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings: [with,] A COLLECTION OF DECLARATIONS, TREATIES, and Other Principal Passages concerning the Differences Betwixt King Charles I. and His Two Houses of Parliament. Clearly Manifesting The Justice of His Cause. His Sinceritie in Religion. His Constant Endeavours for Peace. [with,] Papers and Passages Concerning the Treaty of Peac

2 volumes bound in one. First Edition. Illustrated with superb folio plates engraved on copper, a frontispiece "Dieu et Mon Droit" depicting the Royal Coat of Arms, and engraved illustrated title-page, a double-p[age illustration showing Charles and the ship of state, another double-plate showing the 'Bramble speaking to the Trees', and another double-page plate of the Cedar showing the apostolic delineations, a final plate showing the Earl of Clarendon, the engravings and title-pages throughout, bordered with double and triple-ruling in red, collated complete. Large Thick Folio, 14" x 9.25", handsomely bound in the original contempoaray polished speckled calf, the spine with raised bands over cords double ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering label bgilt, central gilt ornamental devices in the compartments. [2 frontispiece and engraved title, [xii], 120, [2], 458, [2]; [viii], 733, [4 Table] + plates pp. An unusually fine survival still retaining its original binding. The text-block and illustrations all crisp and clean and unpressed, the binding still strong and in a a very pleasing state of preservation. An especially pleasing copy. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST COMPLETE OF ALL WORKS ON KING CHARLES I OF ENGLAND AND THE KINGDOM. Charles I (1600 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland. After his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1612 upon the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. After his accession in 1625, Charles quarreled with the English Parliament, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. He believed in the divine right of kings and was determined to govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without Parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Catholic, generated antipathy and mistrust from Reformed religious groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views too Catholic. He supported high church Anglican ecclesiastics and failed to aid continental Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments, and helped precipitate his own downfall. From 1642, Charles fought the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the English Civil War. After his defeat in 1645 at the hands of the Parliamentarian New Model Army, he fled north from his base at Oxford. Charles surrendered to a Scottish force and, after lengthy negotiations between the English and Scottish parliaments, was handed over to the Long Parliament in London. Charles refused to accept his captors' demands for a constitutional monarchy, and temporarily escaped captivity in November 1647. Re-imprisoned on the Isle of Wight, he forged an alliance with Scotland, but by the end of 1648, the New Model Army had consolidated its control over England. Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and the Commonwealth of England was established as a republic. The monarchy was restored in 1660, with Charles's son Charles II as king. Archbishop William Laud, whom Parliament beheaded during the war, called Charles a "mild and gracious prince who knew not how to be, or how to be made, great." Charles was more sober and refined than his father, but he was intransigent. He deliberately pursued unpopular policies that brought ruin on himself. Both Charles and James were advocates of the divine right of kings, but whi.…