Gilbert Burnet 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. He was always closely associated with the Whig party, and was one of the few close friends in whom King William III confided.
Portrait of Gilbert Burnet after John Riley, c. 1689–1691
Engraved Title page of the first volume of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England.
Gilbert Burnet was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury on Easter 1689.
Monument to Bishop Gilbert Burnet in Salisbury Cathedral
Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston was a Scottish judge and statesman.
Archibald Johnston
The Signing of the National Covenant. The Victorian painter William Hole places Alexander Henderson (standing on the gravestone) at the centre of events in 1638. Archibald Johnston is on the left.
Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1644
Warriston was hanged at the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh, now marked by these pavement setts.