Excerpt from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. 1: From the Restoration 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 Restoration in the Year 1660 I fell into great acquaintance and friendfhips with feveral perfons who either were-or had been Minillzers oil Rate, from whom when the fecret of affairs was over I {ludie'd to know as many particulars as I could draw from them. I, faw a great deal more among the Papers of the Dukes of Hamilton than was properly 3 part of their memoirs, or fit to be told at thattime For when a licence was to be obtained, and a work was to be publifhed fit for that family to own, things foreign to their Mi millry, or hurtful to any other families, were not to be inter mixed with the account I then gave of the late wars. And now for above thirty years I have lived in fuch intimacy with all who have had the chief condue't of affairs, and have been (0 much cruf'ted, and on (0 many important occafions employed by them, that I have been able to penetrate far into the true fecrets of counfels and dehgas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.