justice to say, 'After all he was a man of generosity and
good nature.'"--_Short Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History_.

"It is usual to censure Burnet as a singularly inaccurate
historian; but I believe the charge to be
altogether unjust. He appears to be singularly inaccurate
only because his narrative has been subjected to
a scrutiny singularly severe and unfriendly. If any
Whig thought it worth while to subject Reresby's
_Memoirs_, North's _Examen_, Mulgrave's _Account of the
Revolution_, or the _Life of James the Second_, edited by
Clarke, to a similar scrutiny, it would soon appear that
Burnet was far indeed from being the most inexact
writer of his time."--Macaulay, _Hist. England_, vol. ii.
p.177, 3rd. Ed.

T.
Bath.

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QUERIES

SAINT THOMAS OF LANCASTER.

Sir,--I am desirous of information respecting the religious
veneration paid to the memory of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster,
cousin-german to King Edward the Second. He was taken in open
rebellion against the King on the 16th of March, 1322, condemned by