There is a short character of Clarendon in Warwick’s Memoires, pp. 196-8; compare also Pepys’s Diary, October 13, 1666, and Evelyn’s Diary, August 27, 1667, and September 18, 1683.

66.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 638-9; Continuation of the Life of Edward
Earl of Clarendon, ed. 1759, pp. 51-2.

Page 226, l. 8.  He was released from Windsor Castle in March 1660. 
Compare Burnet’s character, p. 228, ll. 2-4.

l. 19. the Chancellour, i.e.  Clarendon himself.

Page 227, ll. 5 ff.  John Middleton (1619-74), created Earl of Middleton, 1656.  He was taken prisoner at Worcester, but escaped to France.  As Lord High Commissioner for Scotland and Commander-in-chief, he was mainly responsible for the unfortunate methods of forcing episcopacy on Scotland.

William Cunningham (1610-64), ninth Earl of Glencairn, Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

John Leslie (1630-81), seventh Earl and first Duke of Rothes,
President of the Council in Scotland; Lord Chancellor, 1667.

On the composition of the ministry in Scotland, compare Burnet, ed. 
Osmund Airy, vol. i, pp. 199, ff.

67.

Burnet’s History of His Own Time.  Vol. i. (pp. 101-2.)

We are fortunate in having companion characters of Lauderdale by Clarendon and Burnet.  Their point of view is different.  Clarendon describes the Lauderdale of the Restoration who is climbing to power and is officially his inferior.  Burnet looks back on him at the height of power and remembers how it was made to be felt.  But the two characters have a strong likeness.  Burnet is here seen at his best.

Page 228, ll. 14-17.  Compare Roger North’s Lives of the Norths, ed. 1890, vol. i, p. 231:  ’the duke himself, being also learned, having a choice library, took great pleasure ... in hearing him talk of languages and criticism’.  Compare also Evelyn’s Diary, August 27, 1678.  His library was dispersed by auction—­the French, Italian, and Spanish books on May 14, and the English books on May 27, 1690:  copies of the sale catalogues are in the Bodleian.  The catalogue of his manuscripts, 1692, is printed in the Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. ii, 1836, p. 149.

l. 30.  As Professor of Theology in the University of Glasgow Burnet had enjoyed the favour of Lauderdale, and had dedicated to him, in fulsome terms, A Vindication of the Church and State of Scotland.  The break came suddenly, and with no apparent cause, in 1673, when Burnet was appointed royal chaplain and was winning the ears of the King.  Henceforward Lauderdale continued a ‘violent enemy’.  Their relations at this time are described in Clarke and Foxcroft’s Life of Gilbert Burnet, 1907, pp. 109 ff., where Burnet’s concluding letter of December 15, 1673, is printed in full.

Page 229, ll. 2-7.  Richard Baxter delivered himself to Lauderdale in a long letter about his lapse from his former professions of piety—­’so fallne from all that can be called serious religion, as that sensuality and complyance with sin is your ordinary course.’  The letter (undated, but before 1672) is printed in The Landerdale Papers, ed.  Osmund Airy, Camden Society, vol. iii, 1885, pp. 235-9.