^{page 359 note 1} The subject merits less than a page in the latest biography by Lynch, K. M., Roger Boyle, First Earl of Orrery, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1965.Google Scholar

^{page 359 note 2} The development of this division is to be found in the Records of the Commissions of the General Assembly, III, ed. Christie, J., Edinburgh 1909, passim.Google Scholar

^{page 361 note 1} Whether or not the Protesters were royalists is a difficult point, but it is certain that they had refused to co-operate over the Worcester campaign, and had stopped praying for the king at the time of the Cromwellian invasion.

^{page 361 note 2} That was because the Cromwellians identified the Protesters with the English Independents.

^{page 361 note 3} Scotland and the Commonwealth, ed. Firth, C. H., Edinburgh 1895, 44–5.Google Scholar

^{page 361 note 4} For details of this policy see Trevor-Roper, H. R., ‘Scotland and the Puritan Revolution’, in Historical Essays 1600–1750 presented to David Ogg, London 1963, 78–130.Google Scholar

^{page 362 note 1} A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, ed. Birch, Thomas, London 1742, (hereafter cited as Thurloe Papers), i. 159; Calendar of State Papers (Domestic) Interregnum, 1651, 400.Google Scholar

^{page 362 note 2} Baillie, Robert, Letters and Journals, ed. Laing, David, Edinburgh 1822, III. 228–30.Google Scholar

^{page 362 note 3} Ibid., iii. 166, 174.

^{page 362 note 4} See for example Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, ed. Fleming, D. H., Edinburgh 1919, II. 151 ff.; Baillie, Letters and Journals, iii. 166 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 362 note 5} Scotland and the Commonwealth, 273, 275, 286, 303, 304, 307.

^{page 362 note 6} Hence their decrees on this subject: Thurloe Papers, ii. 221, 261.

^{page 362 note 7} For a brief description of these see Wariston, Diary, III, ed. Ogilvie, J. D., Edinburgh 1943, introduction.Google Scholar

^{page 362 note 8} The information for this paragraph is taken from K. M. Lynch, Roger Boyle, 1–86, passim.

^{page 363 note 1} Thurloe Papers, iv. 48–9. 56–7, 76–7, 104–6, 127–9, 199, for a demonstration of Broghill's vigour.

^{page 363 note 2} Ibid., iv. 56–7.

^{page 363 note 3} Ibid., iv. 49.

^{page 363 note 4} Baillie, Letters and Journals, iii. 281.

^{page 363 note 5} Ibid.

^{page 363 note 6} Thurloe Papers, iv. 58.

^{page 364 note 1} Thurloe Papers, iv. 73; Baillie, Letters and Journals, iii. 295–6; The Diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton, 1649–1671, [ed. Kinloch, G. R.], Edinburgh 1830, 91–2Google Scholar

^{page 364 note 2} This easy victory apparently gave rise to jealousy with Monck: Baillie, Letters and Journals, iii. 296.

^{page 364 note 3} Scotland and the Commonwealth, 317.

^{page 364 note 4} Thurloe Papers, iv. 127–8.

^{page 364 note 5} Nicoll, John, A Diary of Public Transactions and Other Occurences, chiefly in Scotland: from January 1650 to June 1667, Edinburgh 1836, 164–7.Google Scholar

^{page 364 note 6} Ibid., 163–4.

^{page 365 note 1} Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh, ed. Stephen, W., Edinburgh 1921–1930, I. 57–69.Google Scholar

^{page 365 note 2} Ibid., i. 71–80. Baillie, Letters and Journals, iii. 244, 248, 282, 305.

^{page 365 note 3} Baillie, Letters and Journals, iii. 276.

^{page 365 note 4} Thurloe Papers, iv. 223.

^{page 365 note 5} Ibid., iv. 250, 282.

^{page 365 note 6} See, for example, Ibid., iv. 255–7 for the views of Rutherford and others; of Wariston, Diary, iii. 9–17; Baillie, Letters and Journals, iii. 176, 196–7.

^{page 365 note 7} Thurloe Papers, iv. 479.

^{page 365 note 8} Baillie's strictures on ‘neuters’ (Letters and Journals, iii. 178, 187, 189, 190) confirm the existence of these less committed elements, as do the repeated initiatives for peace within the Church.

^{page 365 note 9} Thurloe Papers, iv. 557–9. See Wariston, Diary, iii. 25–7, 28–9, for his views.

^{page 366 note 1} 1 Thurloe Papers, iv. 479, for an earlier expression of this preference for the Protesters (or Remonstrants as they are sometimes called), but hesitation as to their political value.

^{page 367 note 1} Thurloe Papers, iv. 557–9.

^{page 367 note 2} Ibid., iv. 646.

^{page 367 note 3} Ibid., iv. 741.

^{page 367 note 4} Ibid., iv. 741.

^{page 367 note 5} I am indebted to Miss Frances Dow of Edinburgh University for discussion on the issue of the centre party.

^{page 367 note 6} Calendar of State Papers (Domestic) 1656–7, 48; Register of Consultations, i. 194–7.

^{page 367 note 7} Thurloe Papers, v. 301.

^{page 368 note 1} See for example their earlier protest against Gillespie's Charter as subverting presbyterial discipline: Register of Consultations, 57–69.

^{page 368 note 2} Lillburne referred to the Resolutioner ministers as ‘strange creatures’: Scotland and the Protectorate, 62.

^{page 368 note 3} See Baillie's favourable comments on Broghill, Letters and Journals, iii. 321, 325.

^{page 368 note 4} Thurloe Papers, v. 323.

^{page 368 note 5} See Baillie, Letters and journals, iii. 352, for his gratitude at the quiet in the Church since the dispute had been removed to London.