Burnet's The History of the Reformation of the Church of England: With the Collection of Records, and a Copious Index (Volume III only)

Uncommon in the U.S. Volume 3 only of 4 of the 1842 American Edition. Brown decorative hardcover boards with stamped designs, gilt lettering and gilt designs on the spine. Boards with heavy wear; edges torn; pages dusty with heavy foxing and soiling. Illustrated. Gilbert Burnet (1643 – 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. In the mid-1670s, a French translation of Nicholas Sanders attacked the English Reformation as a political act carried on by a corrupt king. Several of Burnet's friends wished him to publish a rebuttal of the work, so in 1679 his first volume of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England was published.