THE History of his Own Time by bishop Burnet lays claim to our regard IS in original work containing a relation of public transactions, in which either the author or his connexions mere engaged. Jk will therefore never lose its importance but will contilue to furnish materials for other historians, nrd to be read by those, who wish to derive their knowledge of facts from the first sources of information. The accuracy indeed of the authors narrative has been attacked with vehemence, and often, it must be confessed, with success bnt not so often, as to overthrow the general credit of his work. On the contrary, it has in many instances been satisfactorily defended, and tirne has already evinced the truth of certain accounts, which rested on this single authority. It has also had the rare fortune of being illustrated by the notes of three pelsons of high rank, possessing in consequence a of their situations means of information open to few others. That their observations on this history...

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