As to the Book of Common-Prayer, here are the first Edition of Qu. Elizabeth, which is very rare, and another 1580; which having collated with other Editions, ancient and modern, I have noted the Alterations in the Margent: That of K. James's (wherein the Thanksgivings were first inserted) the Persons then prayed for, were K. James and Queen Anne, Prince Charles, Frederick Prince Elector-Palatine, and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife (Mother to the Princess Sophia.) The Scotch Prayer-Book in K. Charles the 1st's Time, printed at Edinburgh 1637, Folio After the K. and Q. follow Prince Charles, and the rest of the Royal Issue (Royal Progeny in the English Books.) Liber Precum publicarum in usum Ecclisiæ Cathedralis Christi Oxon. 12°. 1660. Oxoniæ. This being before the Act of Uniformity took Place, the Queen Mother is not mentioned. The Thanksgiving upon 5 Nov. as well as 29 May, and the rest that are placed after the Psalms, was never, I suppose, printed and bound up in the same Volume with the Prayer-Book 'till the Restoration. In the Book it self, the Prayers for the Parliament, and All Conditions of Men, and the Collect of General Thanksgiving were added, many of the other Collects were altered, and Lessons changed, the Epistles and Gospels were according to the New Translation, which before were in the Old, (witness that 2d Phil. that in the Name of Jesus every Knee should bowe). In the Folio Edition (of which here is a curious one, the Present of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Yorke) is added the Form and Manner of making, ordaining and consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. And for the Honour of this his Native Country, be it remembred that the Learned and Judicious Dr. Rob. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln, did either entirely form and word many of the new Collections and Additional Offices, or at least did more therein than any single Man of the Convocation, by whom he was also desir'd to draw up the Preface. See his Life by Iz. Walton, and as to the true Place of his Nativity, pag. 78. of this Book.

This reminds me of another Branch of the Curiosities that I begun to collect of late Years, viz. Original Letters, and other Matters of the proper Hand Writing of Persons of all Ranks, eminent in their Generations. It begins with the Kings of England, and contains the Signs Manual of K. Hen. 5, Hen. 6, Edw. 4, Rich. 3, and Hen. 7. K. Henry the 8th, Queen Katharine Par's Letter to the Admiral, K. Edw. the 6th's to the said Queen; the entire Letter of his own Writing, so one of his Sister the Lady Elizabeth's, both delicately writ: Qu. Elizabeth's Original Instructions for the Lord Evre, Warden of the middle Marshes. Mary Queen of Scots, when Prisoner in Yorkeshire; K. James the 6th of Scotland, the same when King of England; his Daughter Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia: K. Charles the Ist's Letter to the said Queen; the Commeatus for Sir John Burrough, Garter: K. Charles II. when in Exile (to the Provost of Edinburgh); and after his Restoration: His Order for erecting a Monument in Westminster-Abbey for K. Edw. 5, and his Brother, whose murdered Corps were then discovered at the Tower. Prince Rupert, James Duke of Yorke, the same when King of England; William-Henry Prince of Orange, King Will. 3. Qu. Mary 2. and her present Majesty Qu. Anne, whom God long preserve; Prince George, Duke of Glocester, and Princess Sophia, to the Bishop of Sarum.

Of the Kings, Princes, and learned Men of other Nations, here are of Henry the Great, King of France, when King of Navarre. Lovis 13. to Charles, Prince of Great Britain: Another to the Prince of Condé from the Camp before Rochelle 1628. Lewis 14. a mon frere le Duc de York; the whole Letter writ by the King's own Hand; Marie Terese, Queen of France to the same. Christian 5, King of Denmark. Fred. Henry Prince, and Amelie Princess, of Orange (Grand-Father and Grand-Mother to K. Will.) Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia, and her Daughter the Princess Sophia, to John Chamberlayne Esq;. Jean Gullieaum Electeur Palatine, and Anna Electrice Palatina, to Robert Nelson Esq;. Also the Bishop of Meaux's noted Letter to the said learned and pious Gentleman. Le Prince Seneschal de Ligne, to Sir Andr. Fountaine. Part of the King of Bantam's Letter to K. Ch. 2. Hamel Cardanash, Ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco (in Arabick.) The most noted of the rest follow Alphabetically.