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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    home, he found the king at Theobald’s hunting in a very careless and unguarded manner: and upon that, in order to the putting him on a more careful looking to himself, he told the king he must either give over that way of hunting, or stop another hunt- ing that he was engaged in, which was priest hunt- ing: for he had intelligence in Spain that the priests were comforting themselves with this, that if he went on against them, they would soon get rid of © him: queen Elizabeth was a woman of form, and was always so well attended, that all their plots against her failed, and were never brought to any effect: but a prince who was always in woods or forests would be easily overtaken. The king sent for him in private to inquire more particularly into this: and he saw it had made a great impression on him: but wrought otherwise than as he intended. For the king, (who) resolved to gratify his humour in hunting, and in a careless and irregular way of life, did immediately order all that prosecution to be let fall. I have the minutes of the council books of the year 1606, which are full of orders to discharge and transport priests, sometimes ten in a day. From thence to his dying day he continued always writing and talking against popery, but acting for it. He married his only daughter to a protestant prince, one of the most zealous and sincere of them all, the elector palatine; upon which a great revolution happened in the affairs of Germany. The eldest The elector branch of the house of Austria retained some of the eee impressions that their father Maximilian I]. studied to infuse into them, who, as he was certainly one of the best and wisest princes of these latter ages, so he was unalterably fixed in his opinion against per- Cc 3
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