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Editions of ‘The Totall Discourse’ were published in London in 1640 and 1682, and in Edinburgh in 1770 and 1814, while a volume of the ‘Poetical Remains of William Lithgow,’ containing valuable ‘Prefatory Remarks,’ was collected and published by Dr. James Maidment in Edinburgh in 1863.

The text of ‘The Totall Discourse’ now published is a reprint of the editio princeps of 1632. References to the pages of the original edition are given in the margin. The letters i, j, u, and v have been altered to conform to modern usage, and obvious printers’ errors both of spelling and punctuation have been corrected. The index of the original text has been replaced by a fuller one in this edition.

Glasgow,

September, 1906.

ssss1 Somers Tracts, Vol. IV. p. 535, Ed. 1810.ssss1

ssss1 Ibid.ssss1

ssss1 Lithgow himself says nine weeks, but in the ‘Supplication of Aquila Wykes,’ Keeper of the Marshalsea (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Vol. CLIII, No. 26), dated October 9th, 1623, Lithgow is mentioned as ‘committed close prisoner 2 Febr. 1622’ and still remaining in custody.ssss1