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_Clarendon_, The case of Colonel Ingoldsby: After he had refused to sign the death-warrant of the King:--Cromwell, and others, held him by violence; and Cromwell, with a loud laughter, taking his hand in his, and putting the pen between his fingers, with his own hand writ Richard Ingoldsby he making all the resistance he could .-- _Swift_.
A mistake; for it was his own hand-writ, without any restraint. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** REMARKS ON "BISHOP BURNET'S HISTORY OF ['SCOTLAND IN'-- _SWIFT_] HIS OWN TIME," FOLIO EDITION, 1724-34. FROM THE ORIGINAL, IN THE LIBRARY of THE LATE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE. NOTE. The standard edition of Burnet's interesting "History" is that by Dr. Routh, first issued in 1823 and revised in a second edition in 1833.
Mr. Osmund Airy is at present engaged on a new edition for the Clarendon Press, but so far only two volumes have been published.
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