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Gilbert Burnet: . . ....

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. . . was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them a little too precipitately.

Source: Referring to William III; his authorization of the Glencoe Massacre (1692) may have been one consequence of this habit; in History of My Own Times.
-- Gilbert Burnet, (Sep 8 1643-1715), Scottish theologian, religious leader; He was an influential bishop who offered confidential advise to William and Mary; wrote History of His Time, 1734.

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