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BURNET-LEIGHTON PAPERS
bee humbly content, and pleas’d together with yow to have it
so. but amidst ye many more important and vsefull employ¬
ments of yor time it were a great impertinency and iniustice in
mee to exact or expect of yow ye constant frequency of writing
to mee, (though when yow doe yow may bee sure ’tis always
most welcom) and withall I think a great incongruity for a
poor old Hermite dead and buried to all ye publick affairs and
intrigues of ye world to entertein an itch after ye news and
occurrences of it, and ye truth is whither I know any thing or
nothing of them, all I can say or doe to them, is, to comitt
them to y* soveraign hand wherein they are, and by wch I am
sure they shall bee all order’d to ye best and certainly whither
it bee in an active or vacant life our great buisines lies within
vs, in ye purifying of our souls from vain opinion and self-
conceit and selflove and all ye desires and delights of this
world by ye predominant power of divine love, and I know
that this design and ye thoughts of it are yor great exercice
and dayly sweet retreat from all even y® most laudible of other
affairs, and y® best of companies wherein yow are conversant
and my constant and hearty wishes are for yow and yor worthy
lady as for my self, that yow may bee growing vpwards and
making great advances towards that blessed perfection y* is set
before vs, and I doubt not of yor returning mee y® like and am
hopefull y® father of mercies will have a favourable regard to
vs and grant vs these ioynt and mutuall desires of our hearts.
Adieu.
For the Reverend Doctor Burnett at London.
[Sealed in black.]
BURNET-LEIGHTON PAPERS
bee humbly content, and pleas’d together with yow to have it
so. but amidst ye many more important and vsefull employ¬
ments of yor time it were a great impertinency and iniustice in
mee to exact or expect of yow ye constant frequency of writing
to mee, (though when yow doe yow may bee sure ’tis always
most welcom) and withall I think a great incongruity for a
poor old Hermite dead and buried to all ye publick affairs and
intrigues of ye world to entertein an itch after ye news and
occurrences of it, and ye truth is whither I know any thing or
nothing of them, all I can say or doe to them, is, to comitt
them to y* soveraign hand wherein they are, and by wch I am
sure they shall bee all order’d to ye best and certainly whither
it bee in an active or vacant life our great buisines lies within
vs, in ye purifying of our souls from vain opinion and self-
conceit and selflove and all ye desires and delights of this
world by ye predominant power of divine love, and I know
that this design and ye thoughts of it are yor great exercice
and dayly sweet retreat from all even y® most laudible of other
affairs, and y® best of companies wherein yow are conversant
and my constant and hearty wishes are for yow and yor worthy
lady as for my self, that yow may bee growing vpwards and
making great advances towards that blessed perfection y* is set
before vs, and I doubt not of yor returning mee y® like and am
hopefull y® father of mercies will have a favourable regard to
vs and grant vs these ioynt and mutuall desires of our hearts.
Adieu.
For the Reverend Doctor Burnett at London.
[Sealed in black.]
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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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| Description | Over 180 volumes, published by the Scottish History Society, containing original sources on Scotland's history and people. With a wide range of subjects, the books collectively cover all periods from the 12th to 20th centuries, and reflect changing trends in Scottish history. Sources are accompanied by scholarly interpretation, references and bibliographies. Volumes are usually published annually, and more digitised volumes will be added as they become available. |
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