English History from the Restoration of Charles II
Burnet's History of His Own Time - London - 1724
Burnet, Gilbert BISHOP BURNET'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME. Vol. I, From the Restoraton of King Charles II to the Settlement of King William and Queen Mary at the Revolution: To Which is prefix'd A Summary Recapitulation of Affairs in Church and State from King James I to the Revolution in the Year 1660. London Printed for Thomas Ward in the Inner-Temple Lane 1724
First Edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece and very finely engraved head and tail pieces throughout. Folio, bound in later three quarter brown morocco over cloth boards, the spine with red lettering labels gilt. (4), (12) List of Subscibers, 836 pp. including the contents and index leaves. A crisp and quite clean copy internally, the later binding in an excellent state of preservation.
A CLASSIC ENGLISH HISTORICAL WORK OF THE PERIOD. Gilbert Burnet, (1643-1715), educated at Marischal College Aberdeen, was a popular preacher and was offered four Bishoprics before he was 29 years of age. These he refused and in 1674 was dismissed from the post of King's Chaplain for remonstrating with Charles II for his profligacy. He was Chaplain to Mary when she was still Princess of Orange. He became Bishop of Salisbury in 1689 under William III. He published his account of the death-bed repentence of Rochester (q.v.) 'Some Passages in the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot Earl of Rochester' in 1680, and his 'History of the Reformation in England' Vol. I in 1680, Vol. II in 1681, Vol. III in 1714. His 'Expositon of the Thirty-nine Articles' appeared in 1699, and his best know work 'The History of My own Times', posthumously ( 1724-1734). Other notable works by Burnet were the 'Memoires of the ...Dukes of Hamilton' (1677), the 'Life of Sir Matthew Hale' (1682), and the 'Journal of Lord Russell's Last Week' (first published in the 'General Dictionary', 1739, and subsequently in the 'Life of William Lord Russell' 1819.
This particular work treats the history of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth with additions to the work taking the history to about 1713. Burnet was able to record events from a really extraordinary vantage point and the work is still considered a core historical text of the English Revolutionary period.
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