30/72 A civil term for all who are Episcopal. [In compiling the Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton,] I found there materials for a very large history. I writ it with great sincerity; and concealed none of their errors. I did indeed conceal several things that related to the King: I left out some passages that were in his letters; in some of which was too much weakness .-- _Swift._ The letters, if they had been published, could not have given a worse character. _Burnet,_ speaking of the Scotch clergy refusing to be made bishops, says:--They had an ill opinion of the court, and could not be brought to leave their retirement .-- _Swift._ For that very reason they should have accepted bishoprics. |