The following passage occurs in Rutt's _Diary of Thomas Burton_, 4
vols.: Colburn, 1828. I have not the work at hand, but from a MS.
extract from the same, believe it may be found as a note by the editor
in vol. i. p. 359.
"Burnet was always an extempore preacher. He says that reading is
peculiar to this nation, and cannot be induced in any other. The
only discourse he ever wrote beforehand was a thanksgiving sermon
before the queen in 1705. He never before was at a pause in
preaching. It is contrary to a university statute, obsolete,
though unrepealed."