| Notes | ['The best edn.' [Davies and Keeler]. Also pub. 2 vols., 1724-34; ed. M.J. Routh, 6 vols., Oxford, 1823; portion to 1685 ed. O. Airy, 2 vols., Oxford, 1897-1900; supplement by H.C. Foxcroft, Oxford, 1902. This last 'is valuable, including portions from the original draft' [Davies and Keeler]. Full bibliography in T.E.S. Clarke and H.C. Foxcroft, A life of Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury (Cambridge, 1907); C.H. Firth's introduction to this work offers a critical estimate of the History, as does Leopold von Ranke, A history of England principally in the 17th century, 6 (Oxford, 1875), 45-87] |
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