Record

Document Reference	Ne C 15
Title	Letter from G. Burnet, [later Bishop of Salisbury], Hague, Netherlands, to Lady Rachel Russell; 14 Jun. 1686
Date	14 June 1686
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Sends thanks for letters and her support; highly recommends his servant who is bringing letters 'a very able and dextrous surgeon' as well as a good gardener, if she requires a faithful servant; reports that he has dined with the English envoy in the Hague who 'has had no direction to my prejudice'; denies he is the author of 'that Book' but offers to write if she will commission him; describes meeting the Prince and observes 'he has a vast deal of sense' and 'seems to be of an obliging temper tho in a cold way which is the manner of the Country'; gives an account of meeting the Princess who 'looks like a creature made to be a publicke blessing to those miserable distracted Kingdoms'; praises her religious devotion, air of modest majesty and 'submission to the King that becomes a child to a Father'.
Term	exiles, English 1686
	occupations and professions, servants
	royalty, attitudes towards

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1083	William III (1650-1702); King of England Scotland and Ireland	1650-1702
NA1084	Mary II (1662-1694); Queen of England Scotland and Ireland	1662-1694
NA15001	James II (1633-1701); King of England Scotland and Ireland; succ. 1685; also styled Duke of York	1633-1701
NA18601	Burnet; Gilbert (1643-1715); Bishop of Salisbury; attended Lord Russell on the scaffold; Bishop of Salisbury 1689-1715	1643-1715
NA18590	Russell; Rachel (c.1636-1723); Lady; née Wriothesley; 2nd dau. of 4th Earl of Southampton; m 1stly Lord Francis Vaughan, m 2ndly Lord William Russell 1669	c.1636-1723