The Link to the Original 1611 Preface to the KJV, no longer works, but I will find it elsewhere.
First of all, here is an article referencing the Original 1611 Preface that proved to be EMBARRASSING.
http://www.dbts.edu/2012/04/09/the-embarrassing-preface-to-the-king-james-version/
Here is the Original photocopied from an original 1611 KJV:
https://library.osu.edu/innovation-projects/omeka/exhibits/show/the-king-james-bible/sidebars/the-translators-preface-to-the
HERE (I think) is a typed Version of the ORIGINAL 1611 PREFACE to the KJV.
http://www.ccel.org/bible/kjv/preface/pref10.htm
Yes, these admissions about the Translation Team efforts to produce the much hailed KJV as the only GOD Inspired Translation, PROVES TO BE EMBARRASSING to the most die hard KJO fan. The Translation Team's Admission, at the top of page 10, in the second sentence of the last Link above, PROVES, it was NEVER INTENDED TO BE A LEGITIMATE TRANSLATION, but only an Update of language and correction of some known errors:
Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one,
Here is ONE OF THE ERRORS KNOWN ERRORS THEY DID MISS:
1 John 5:7-8 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
1 John 5:7-8 (HCSB)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For there are three that testify:
[SUP]8 [/SUP]the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement.
1 John 5:7-8 (NASB)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For there are three that testify:
[SUP]8 [/SUP]the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
1 John 5:7-8 (ESV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For there are three that testify:
[SUP]8 [/SUP]the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.