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 Struggle for Co7istitutional Government 267 Pepys (1633-1703), Diary, fullest edition by Wheatley, 8 vols., 1893 sqq. Covers ten years, 1659-1669. Entertaining tales by a con- vivial but efficient public official. Burnet (1643-17 15), History of My Own Time, edited by Airy, 2 vols., with a supplementary volume, 1897. Though colored by Whig sympathies, this is an honest work. The character sketches are inter- esting and valuable. The Works of Sir William Te?nple, 4 vols., 1757. Useful for English and foreign affairs during the latter part of the seventeenth century. Valuable material is to be found in the works of James I and Charles I. 1 The advanced student should also be familiar with the extensive publi- cations of the Camden Society, the Fairfax, Marchmont, Shaftesbury, Shrewsbury, and Clarendon papers and correspondence, Carte's collec- tion of letters, Maseres' Select Tracts, Howell's State Trials, and the Harleian Miscellany. 1 The Eikon Basilike, a small book which appeared shortly after the death of Charles I and purported to be from his pen, was really written by Dr. Gauden. It was accepted as authentic and ran through innumerable editions. Pretending to reveal the profound spiritual nature of the king, it did much to establish the conception of Charles I as a martyr to Puritan brutality. See Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War, Vol. IV, p. 325.