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Excerpt from A Supplement to Burnet's History of My Own Time: Derived From His Original Memoirs, His Autobiography, His Letters to Admiral Herbert, and His Private Meditations, All Hitherto Unpublished By far the larger portion of the ensuing work is drawn from a source of which the existence at least is well known to all students of seventeenth-century history. The remarks of Dr. Routh and Miss Strickland 2, of Lord Macaulay, Professor Von Ranke, and Dr. Osmund Airy, have emphasized the fact that there exist in the British Museum fragments of Dr. Burnet's History, derived from an original version which differs in many respects from the text as eventually published. The observations of Von Ranke, notwithstanding their value, were in one respect unfortunate; his report has been erroneously accepted as exhaustive; and, despite his own ardently expressed aspiration for a complete edition of the manuscript, it has been assumed that he had noticed the chief differences between the early version and the received text. As a matter of fact the quotations of the distinguished German refer exclusively to two important passages; he states specifically that he became acquainted with the document very late in the progress of his monumental work; and his language leaves us in doubt whether he had ever seen either the original papers or a complete transcript. 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.