Lord Broghill and the Scottish Church, 1655–1656

Julia Buckroyd

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Lord Broghill and the Scottish Church, 1655–1656

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Small attention has generally been paid to the activities of Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, during his year in Scotland from September 1655 to September 1656. In particular, his negotiations with the Protester and Resolutioner ministers have not been supposed any more or less successful than those, for example, of Lillburne or Monck, but merely another stage in the Cromwellian government's ineffectual urgings towards a settlement of the dispute in the Church.

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Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 359 - 368

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900052143 [Opens in a new window]
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^{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.

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