Copy 1, Volume 1

Bishop Burnet's History of his own time / with notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift. To which are added other annotations.

  • Gilbert Burnet
Date:
1833
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Credit: Bishop Burnet's History of his own time / with notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift. To which are added other annotations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had been ill used by lord Montrose’s army, the peo- ple in revenge fell on them, and knocked them on the head. Several persons of quality were con- Antrim’s ence with the king and queen. ceeded against both with severity and with indigni- ties. The preachers thundered in their pulpits against all that did the work of the Lord deceit- fully; and cried out against all that were for mode- rate proceedings, as guilty of the blood that had been shed. Thine eye shall not pity, and thou shalt not spare, were often inculeated after every execution: they triumphed with so little decency, that it gave all people very ill impressions of them. But this was not the worst effect of Lord Mon- trose’s expedition. It lost the opportunity at Ux- bridge: it alienated the Scots much from the king : it exalted all that were enemies to peace. Now they seemed to have some colour for all those asper- sions they had cast on the king, as if he had been in a correspondence with the Irish rebels, when the worst tribe of them had been thus employed by him», His affairs declined totally in England that summer: and lord Hollis said to me, all was owing to lord Montrose’s unhappy successes. Upon this occasion I will relate somewhat con- cerning the earl of Antrim. I had in my hand several of his letters to the king in the year 1646, writ in a very confident style: [for he was a very arrogant, as well as a very weak man.] One was somewhat particular: he in a postscript desired the king to send the inclosed to the good woman, with- out making any excuse for the presumption; by b Lord Clarendon differs from all this. S.
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