thought was necessary to be known. Upon this I yielded, and gave an account of the discourse formerly mentioned. They laid great weight on this, and renewed their address against Duke Lauderdale. "I was much blamed for what I had done. Some, to make it look the worse, added, that I had been his chaplain, which was false; and that I had been much obliged to him, though I had never received any real obligation from him, but had done him great services, for which I had been very unworthily requited: Yet the thing had an ill appearance, as the disclosing of what had passed in confidence; though I make it a great question, how far even that ought to bind a man when the designs are very wicked, and the person continued still in the same post and capacity of executing them. I have told the matter as it was, and must leave myself to the censure of the reader. My love to my country, and my private friendship, carried me, perhaps, too far; especially since I had declared much against clergymen's meddling in secular affairs, and yet had run myself so deep in them."--_History of his Own Times_, Vol. I. p. 375. The discourse to which Burnet refers was of the following dangerous tendency, and took place in September 1673. "_Duke._ If the king should need an army from Scotland, to tame those in England, might the Scots be depended upon? "_Burnet._ Certainly not. The commons in the southern parts are all Presbyterians. The nobility thought they had been ill used, were generally discontented, and only waited for an opportunity to show it. "_Duke._ I am of another mind. The hope of the spoil of England will bring them all in. "_Burnet._ The king is ruined if he trusts to that; for even indifferent persons, who might otherwise have been ready enough to push their fortunes without any anxious enquiries into the grounds they went upon, will not now trust the king, since he has so lately said, he would stick to his declaration,[284] and yet has so soon given it up. "Duke. _Hinc illæ lacrymæ._ The king was forsaken in that matter, and none sticks to him but Lord Clifford and myself."--_Ralph, with the Authorities he quotes_, Vol. I. p. 275. James II. afterwards revived the plan of maintaining a Scottish standing army, to bridle his English subjects. Note XXXII. _And runs an Indian muck at all he meets._--P. 235. To run a-muck, is a phrase derived from a practice of the Malays. When one of this nation has lost his whole substance by gaming, or sustained any other great and insupportable calamity, he intoxicates himself with opium; and, having dishevelled his hair, rushes into the streets, crying _Amocca_, or _Kill_, and stabbing every one whom he meets with his creeze, until he is cut down, or shot, like a mad dog. Note XXXIII. _Such was, and is, the Captain of the Test._--P. 236.