King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
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An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself – was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene College, Cambridge, and was the first of his cryptographs to be deciphered. With several polychrome drawings by Maurice Bartlett.
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