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Letter to Charles II urges genuine repentance and religion
A lengthy admonitory letter from Dr Burnet to King Charles II pleads for true religious reform, warning that misrule and moral decline have alienated subjects. It argues the king must repent, reform his court, and abandon sinful pleasures to restore divine favor and public harmony.
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Public Ledger
Henry
Third
France
Worcester
Poland
Saxony
England
Prussia
Austria
Dresden
Electorate of Saxony
Bohemia
House of
Germany
Sam
Plymouth
Hero
Burford
Monmouth
Belleisle
Swallow Sloop of War
Ireland
Three Brothers
Ditto
Newton
Scorpion
Wales
Alcide
Neptune
Ughart
Leith
Lisbon
Achilles
Vigo
Cowes Road
Saphire
Strachan
Spithead
Centurion
Galbraith
Jamaica
Africa
York
Knell
Donver
Antigua
Charles Dunbar
Nathaniel Gilbert
Fishborne
John Errington
Virginia
Harriott
South Carolina
Cowes
Unity
Brocklebank
Whitehaven
Hawke, Taylor
Canaries
Nancy
Woodrope
London
Carolina
Harcourt
Capt. Webber
East-Indies
Merid
St. Helena
Mary Mew
Liverpool
Thomas Cottiman
Bonny
Guinea
West Indies
Groves
Union
Newfoundland
Webb
Mons
Buffy
Marquis of Granby
St. James’s
Tower
Jacob Houblon, Junior
Lady Erskine
Sir Henry Erskine, Bart
Princess of Wales
Countess of
Bute
Bellisle
Palais
Belleifle