Some Unpublished Letters of Gilbert Burnet, the Historian (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...and such who turned to be Papists upon sight of this wonder, if they would leave the town and go to inhabit in his town they sho'd be seven years free from all imposition and pay two capons a year during that time for rent:2 these privileges and the other juggle so effectually wrought, that the Castle was demolished, the courts of Justice removed and all ways and means that brought profit to the town were carried to Richlieu and that being peopled and his work done the Jesuits and Nuns left the town: and my landlord's son (who came over to England in the year 1644), told me the vizard was taken off and the juggle manifest to all the world, and, though he was a Papist, he could not but acknowledge to me he never had faith enough to believe it to be a truth. 1 'Richelieu, built by the Cardinal in 1635; 152 miles S.W. of Paris.' E. F., = Straohan's curious tale evidently ends at this point, the rest being an addition of Courthope's own, supplied from the information of the son in 1644. The French Gazetteer says that the town was ' built in 1637.' If Bichelieu had such ambitious designs for the future of his town they were frustrated by his death. Evelyn, who visited it in 1644, writes, ' Since the Cardinal's death, it is thinly inhabited, standing so much out of the way, and in a place not well situated for health or pleasure." Having parted with my landlord Strachan and heard his sense of the possession I went on towards Lyons and took Orange and Avignion in my way for Geneva, where I had a bill of exchange for 100Z. to carry me to Home; when I came to Geneva I found the plague very hot there, but there were in the city some of my countrymen, by name Mr Cecil Tufton, brother to the Earl of Thanet, Sr Edward Cowper, son of Sr Wm Cowper of the Assurance Of...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...and such who turned to be Papists upon sight of this wonder, if they would leave the town and go to inhabit in his town they sho'd be seven years free from all imposition and pay two capons a year during that time for rent:2 these privileges and the other juggle so effectually wrought, that the Castle was demolished, the courts of Justice removed and all ways and means that brought profit to the town were carried to Richlieu and that being peopled and his work done the Jesuits and Nuns left the town: and my landlord's son (who came over to England in the year 1644), told me the vizard was taken off and the juggle manifest to all the world, and, though he was a Papist, he could not but acknowledge to me he never had faith enough to believe it to be a truth. 1 'Richelieu, built by the Cardinal in 1635; 152 miles S.W. of Paris.' E. F., = Straohan's curious tale evidently ends at this point, the rest being an addition of Courthope's own, supplied from the information of the son in 1644. The French Gazetteer says that the town was ' built in 1637.' If Bichelieu had such ambitious designs for the future of his town they were frustrated by his death. Evelyn, who visited it in 1644, writes, ' Since the Cardinal's death, it is thinly inhabited, standing so much out of the way, and in a place not well situated for health or pleasure." Having parted with my landlord Strachan and heard his sense of the possession I went on towards Lyons and took Orange and Avignion in my way for Geneva, where I had a bill of exchange for 100Z. to carry me to Home; when I came to Geneva I found the plague very hot there, but there were in the city some of my countrymen, by name Mr Cecil Tufton, brother to the Earl of Thanet, Sr Edward Cowper, son of Sr Wm Cowper of the Assurance Of...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

Release date

May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

72

ISBN-13

978-1-153-66892-7

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9781153668927

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1-153-66892-0



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