Gilbert Burnet
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Burnet · Bishop Burnet
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Historian and bishop to whom Lauderdale reportedly disclosed the existence of the secret Additional Agreement.
Lauderdale told Burnet of its existence.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Bishop Gilbert Burnet, who possessed the Articles of the Barons and was wrongly accused of appropriating the lost Salisbury Magna Carta.
Bishop Burnet left it as a legacy to his son Sir Thomas Burnet;
The calumny was so widely spread that Burnet thought it necessary formally to refute it, explaining that he had received the Articles as a gift from Colonel Lee:
As its disappearance had taken place during the tenure of the see by Gilbert Burnet, his political adversaries accused him of appropriating it—an undoubted calumny, as will be hereafter explained.