It was presented by himself to the head of his family.

But, as one great object of the Bishop's history was to laud and magnify the personal character and public acts of William of Orange, his friend and patron, and as William was held in special abhorrence by the Jacobite party in Scotland, the Bishop holds a prominent, and, with many, a very odious position in Scottish Reminiscences; in fact, he drew upon himself and upon his memory the determined hatred and unrelenting hostility of adherents to the Stuart cause.

They never failed to abuse him on all occasions, and I recollect old ladies in Montrose, devoted to the exiled Prince, with whom the epithet usually applied to the Prelate was that of "Leein' Gibby[14]." Such language has happily become a "Reminiscence." Few would be found now to apply such an epithet to the author of the _History of his Own Times_, and certainly it would not be applied on the ground of the Jacobite principles to which he was opposed.

But a curious additional proof of this hostility of Scottish Jacobites to the memory of Burnett has lately come to light.

In a box of political papers lately found at Brechin Castle, belonging to the Panmure branch of the family, who, in '15, were forfeited on the ground of their Jacobite opinions and adherence to the cause of Charles Edward, there has been found a severe and bitter supposed _epitaph_ for Bishop Burnett.