We are fortunate in having companion characters of Lauderdale by Clarendon and Burnet. Their point of view is different. Clarendon describes the Lauderdale of the Restoration who is climbing to power and is officially his inferior. Burnet looks back on him at the height of power and remembers how it was made to be felt. But the two characters have a strong likeness. Burnet is here seen at his best. Page 228, ll. 14-17. Compare Roger North's _Lives of the Norths_, ed. 1890, vol. i, p. 231: 'the duke himself, being also learned, having a choice library, took great pleasure ... in hearing him talk of languages and criticism'. Compare also Evelyn's _Diary_, August 27, 1678. His library was dispersed by auction--the French, Italian, and Spanish books on May 14, and the English books on May 27, 1690: copies of the sale catalogues are in the Bodleian. The catalogue of his manuscripts, 1692, is printed in the _Bannatyne Miscellany_, vol. ii, 1836, p. 149. l. 30. As Professor of Theology in the University of Glasgow Burnet had enjoyed the favour of Lauderdale, and had dedicated to him, in fulsome terms, _A Vindication of the Church and State of Scotland_. The break came suddenly, and with no apparent cause, in 1673, when Burnet was appointed royal chaplain and was winning the ears of the King. Henceforward Lauderdale continued a 'violent enemy'. Their relations at this time are described in Clarke and Foxcroft's _Life of Gilbert Burnet_, 1907, pp. 109 ff., where Burnet's concluding letter of December 15, 1673, is printed in full. Page 229, ll. 2-7. Richard Baxter delivered himself to Lauderdale in a long letter about his lapse from his former professions of piety--'so fallne from all that can be called serious religion, as that sensuality and complyance with sin is your ordinary course.' The letter (undated, but before 1672) is printed in _The Landerdale Papers_, ed. Osmund Airy, Camden Society, vol. iii, 1885, pp. 235-9. ll. 8-12. 'The broad and pungent wit, and the brutal _bonhomie_.. probably went as far as anything else in securing Charles's favour.' Osmund Airy, Burnet's _History_, vol. i, p. 185. 68. Burnet's History of His Own Time. Vol. i. (pp. 96-7.) Page 230, l. 14. He was chosen for Tewkesbury in March 1640, but he did not sit in the Long Parliament. l. 18, _a town_, Weymouth: see p. 70, l. 21 note. He had been appointed governor of it in August 1643 after some dispute, but was shortly afterwards removed (Clarendon, vol. iii, pp. 163-5, 362). Page 231, l. 2. Shaftesbury writes about the prediction of 'Doctor Olivian, a German, a very learned physician', in his autobiographical fragment: see No. 14 note. ll. 14, 15. Compare Burnet's first sketch of Shaftesbury, ed. Foxcroft, p. 59: 'he told some that Cromwell offered once to make him king, but he never offered to impose so gross a thing on me.'