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BURNET-LEIGHTON PAPERS
present darknes and sleepines of her imprison’d soul being ye
forerunner of its approaching liberty and full awaking to
perfect and perpetuall light where wee likewise hope ere long
to bee.1 As to those wise Gentlemen in ye North let them
triumph as much as they please, in their counsels and con¬
quests non equidem invideo, miseror magis that known world
seldom fayles. violenta nemo imperia continuit diu, moderata
durant.2 but what pitifull poor things are wee if in our higher
stations in ye world and particularly in ye church, wee proiect
no higher end, then to drive poor people about vs into a forc’t
compliance with our little wretched interests and humors ’ll
fiaTLys /juavLT)? re /Sporwv. ye french persecution3 is another
mad frisk on this stage, but I am glad it produces so good
effects on ye sufferers, as it will certainly at ye longer run
produce very dismall effects to ye advisers and actors of it.
Mr. Wood remembers his service to yow with both our hearty
thanks for ye lines yow sent vs wch discover so much y® kindred
of y* ladies genius with My Lord Rochester. I will say no
more at present but after our wonted manner sans compliment
et tresincerement. Adieu.
For the Reverend Doctor Burnet.
[Sealed in black.]
Febr. 15.
Sk,—I receiv’d yor letter of y® 7th of Febr. for wch I very
heartily thank yow, and assure yow once for all that yor
letters are so farr from troubling mee that they will bee
alwaies a very welcome refreshment to mee, provided yow can
persuade yor self to bestow them as a pure charity, looking for
nothing again, and I mean that as well when I doe return
Lady Margaret Burnet, who ‘ fell under such a decay of memory and under¬
standing that for some years [for above a year] she knew nothing and nobody’
(Supplement to Burnet, pp. 481, 490). She died May or June 1685.
2 This would suit very well with the incident mentioned in History, Airy’s ed.,
vol. ii. pp. 416-419, just before Burnet’s account of Leighton’s last journey,
which was undertaken, at Burnet’s instance, that he might work on Lord Perth,
one of the most unscrupulous Scotsmen in power.
3 Burnet, History, Airy’s ed., vol. ii. p. 440—‘ The persecution . . went on still
in France.’
BURNET-LEIGHTON PAPERS
present darknes and sleepines of her imprison’d soul being ye
forerunner of its approaching liberty and full awaking to
perfect and perpetuall light where wee likewise hope ere long
to bee.1 As to those wise Gentlemen in ye North let them
triumph as much as they please, in their counsels and con¬
quests non equidem invideo, miseror magis that known world
seldom fayles. violenta nemo imperia continuit diu, moderata
durant.2 but what pitifull poor things are wee if in our higher
stations in ye world and particularly in ye church, wee proiect
no higher end, then to drive poor people about vs into a forc’t
compliance with our little wretched interests and humors ’ll
fiaTLys /juavLT)? re /Sporwv. ye french persecution3 is another
mad frisk on this stage, but I am glad it produces so good
effects on ye sufferers, as it will certainly at ye longer run
produce very dismall effects to ye advisers and actors of it.
Mr. Wood remembers his service to yow with both our hearty
thanks for ye lines yow sent vs wch discover so much y® kindred
of y* ladies genius with My Lord Rochester. I will say no
more at present but after our wonted manner sans compliment
et tresincerement. Adieu.
For the Reverend Doctor Burnet.
[Sealed in black.]
Febr. 15.
Sk,—I receiv’d yor letter of y® 7th of Febr. for wch I very
heartily thank yow, and assure yow once for all that yor
letters are so farr from troubling mee that they will bee
alwaies a very welcome refreshment to mee, provided yow can
persuade yor self to bestow them as a pure charity, looking for
nothing again, and I mean that as well when I doe return
Lady Margaret Burnet, who ‘ fell under such a decay of memory and under¬
standing that for some years [for above a year] she knew nothing and nobody’
(Supplement to Burnet, pp. 481, 490). She died May or June 1685.
2 This would suit very well with the incident mentioned in History, Airy’s ed.,
vol. ii. pp. 416-419, just before Burnet’s account of Leighton’s last journey,
which was undertaken, at Burnet’s instance, that he might work on Lord Perth,
one of the most unscrupulous Scotsmen in power.
3 Burnet, History, Airy’s ed., vol. ii. p. 440—‘ The persecution . . went on still
in France.’
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| Description | Contents: The Scottish king's household and other fragments from a 14th century manuscript / Mary Bateson -- The Scottish nation in the University of Orleans, 1336-1538 / John Kirkpatrick -- Muster-roll of the French garrison at Dunbar, 1553 / Robert S. Rait -- The antiquity of the Christian religion among the Scots, 1594 / Henry D.G. Law -- The apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610 / Andrew Lang -- Some letters and correspondence of George Graeme / L.G. Graeme -- A Scottish journie, being an account in verse of a tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P.J. / C.H. Firth -- Narratives illustrating the Duke of Hamilton's expedition to England in 1648 / C.H. Firth -- Certain papers of Robert Burnet ... Gilbert Burnet ... and Robert Leighton / H.C. Foxcroft -- Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720 / Robert Paul -- The will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1789 / Francis Steuart -- Index. |
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