_Burnet,_ in a conversation with the Prince of Orange at The Hague, (1686):--When he found I was in my opinion for toleration, he said, that was all he would ever desire to bring us to, for quieting our contentions at home .-- _Swift._ It seems the Prince even then thought of being King.
P.692.

_Burnet,_ the advice I gave the Princess of Orange, when she should be Queen of England, was, to:--endeavour effectually to get it [the real authority] to be legally vested in him [the Prince] during life: This would lay the greatest obligation on him possible, and lay the foundation of a perfect union between them, which had been of late a little embroiled .-- _Swift._ By Mrs.Villiers, now Lady Orkney; but he proved a _d----d husband for all that._[6] [Footnote 6: Lady Orkney was a favourite of Swift, as appears from several passages in the Journal.

[S.]] P.693.

_Burnet,_ having told the Princess of Orange that her succession to the throne would not make her husband king, and given her the advice just quoted, says:--she in a very frank manner told him, that she did not know that the laws of England were so contrary to the laws of God, as I had informed her: she did not think that the husband was ever to be obedient to the wife .-- _Swift._ Foolish.
P.693.

_Burnet._ [Penn, the Quaker,] was a talking vain man, who had been long in the King's favour, he being the vice-admiral's son.