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BURNET-LEIGHTON PAPERS
of altering my lodging, especially to such a distance, when ’tis
so late in y® evening with mee and I so neer going to bed.
There is no haste of sending the enclosed, but with yor next
I know yow will doe mee that favour. | I intreat to know by
a line from yow when that gentleman yow write of comes to
London, or if hee bee already come, and how long stay hee is
likely to make there these sharp frosts run mee through but if
there come an intervall of soft and calm weather, I would
rather venture to come to see yow and him at London, then
that hee should after so long a iourney at this season, bee
troubled to come hither, the way being so vntoward and ill to
find in sumer, and much worse now. | of y® story y* is now
made so publick of a poor freind of mine that yow know,1 what¬
soever bee my resentment, I will say nothing but this, Oh that
this or any other stop in his way might proov y® occasion to
him of a happy turn, and of his escape from y® wrath to come
a rush for all the honour and dishonour, and all y® better and
worse of this moment, but oh eternity, eternity I will not
doubt of y® kindnes of a share in yor prayers for my vnworthy
self but will yow pardon mee to begg y® charity of yow, some¬
times to dropp a word of request for y4 poor man. it may bee
y® blessing of it may reach him, however yow know it will not
fayl to return into yor own bosom.
if I should trouble yow with y® remembring of. . .
. . . thing, as my humble service and best wishes to
. . . rthy Lady.
am much oblig’d to yow for yor kindnes to my . . .
. . .2 poor Thomas.
For The very Reverend Doctor Burnett.
[Sealed in black.]
[Endorsed:—] Sess. 22 c. 2. Dist. 63. Con Constan. \Jo. ?]
Metropolitanus Hadrian 3 Innocent 3 or 4.
Bradhurst, Decr 21.
Sr,—I confesse I am somewhat ashamed to bee still vpon y®
receiving hand with yow yet I will not grudge nor envy yow
y® ingenuous pleasure I beleev yow have in it, but will rather
? Sir Ellis.
2 Manuscript tom here.
of altering my lodging, especially to such a distance, when ’tis
so late in y® evening with mee and I so neer going to bed.
There is no haste of sending the enclosed, but with yor next
I know yow will doe mee that favour. | I intreat to know by
a line from yow when that gentleman yow write of comes to
London, or if hee bee already come, and how long stay hee is
likely to make there these sharp frosts run mee through but if
there come an intervall of soft and calm weather, I would
rather venture to come to see yow and him at London, then
that hee should after so long a iourney at this season, bee
troubled to come hither, the way being so vntoward and ill to
find in sumer, and much worse now. | of y® story y* is now
made so publick of a poor freind of mine that yow know,1 what¬
soever bee my resentment, I will say nothing but this, Oh that
this or any other stop in his way might proov y® occasion to
him of a happy turn, and of his escape from y® wrath to come
a rush for all the honour and dishonour, and all y® better and
worse of this moment, but oh eternity, eternity I will not
doubt of y® kindnes of a share in yor prayers for my vnworthy
self but will yow pardon mee to begg y® charity of yow, some¬
times to dropp a word of request for y4 poor man. it may bee
y® blessing of it may reach him, however yow know it will not
fayl to return into yor own bosom.
if I should trouble yow with y® remembring of. . .
. . . thing, as my humble service and best wishes to
. . . rthy Lady.
am much oblig’d to yow for yor kindnes to my . . .
. . .2 poor Thomas.
For The very Reverend Doctor Burnett.
[Sealed in black.]
[Endorsed:—] Sess. 22 c. 2. Dist. 63. Con Constan. \Jo. ?]
Metropolitanus Hadrian 3 Innocent 3 or 4.
Bradhurst, Decr 21.
Sr,—I confesse I am somewhat ashamed to bee still vpon y®
receiving hand with yow yet I will not grudge nor envy yow
y® ingenuous pleasure I beleev yow have in it, but will rather
? Sir Ellis.
2 Manuscript tom here.
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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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