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from His Original Memoirs, His Autobiography, His Letters to Admiral Herbert, and His Private Meditations, All Hitherto Unpublished |
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| Title | 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from His Original Memoirs, His Autobiography, His Letters to Admiral Herbert, and His Private Meditations, All Hitherto Unpublished |
| Author | Gilbert Burnet |
| Editor | Helen Charlotte Foxcroft |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 29, 2006 |
| Length | 565 pages |
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