e
us a friendly Christian meeting, to discourse of those things, which
they rail against us for, that (if possible) all misunderstandings
between us may be taken away, which accordingly they gave us on
Wednesday last. There was no bitterness nor passion vented on either
side, with all moderation and tenderness. My Lord General the
Major-Gen. Lambert, for the most part maintained the discourse, and
on their part, Mr. James Guthrie, and Mr. Patrick Gelaspy. We know
not what satisfaction they have received. Sure I am, there was no
such weight in their arguments, that might in the least discourage
us from what we have undertaken, the chiefest thing on which they
insisted being our invasion into Scotland"--Sev. Proc. in Parl. May
1, to 8 Cromwelliana, p. 102. See also Durham's Comment on Revel.
Life of the Author, p. xi.

3 Nicoll's Diary, pp. 68, 94.

4 Along with Dr. John Owen, Joseph Caryl, John Oxenbridge, and
Cuthbert Sydenham officiated as chaplains in the army of Cromwell in
Scotland. Orme's Memoirs of Dr. Owen, p. 128. Neal's History of the
Puritans, vol. iv. p. 490, Lond. 1822.

5 Memoirs of Dr. Owen, p. 127.

6 See note, p. 512.

7 Annals of Scotland, vol. iv. p. 208.

8 Baillie's Letters, vol. iii. p. 200. MSS in Bib. Col. Glas.

9 Memorials of English Affairs from the beginning of the Reign of
Charles I. to the Restoration, pp. 444-446, Lond. 1682.

10 Hist. of Eng. vol. vi. pp. 180, Lond. 1825.

11 Memoirs of Dr. Owen, p. 126.

12 Thurlow's State Papers, vol. i. p. 189.

13 Thurlow's State Papers, vol. i. pp. 139, 160.

14 Orme's Life and Times of Richard Baxter, vol. i. pp. 140, 141.

15 P. 520.

16 "At Cathcart Kirk, 19th Oct., 1652

"Mr. Robert Baylie renewed his protestation given in be him the last
daye, against Mr. Hew Binnen moderating of the Presbyterie, in his
own name and in the name of so many as would adhere to that
protestation; and that upon the additional reason that Mr. Hew
Binnen of his own accord, had gone in to hear an Englishman preach
in his own kirk in the parish of Govan, who attended Colonel
Overtoun's regiment, and that the said Mr. Hew, be his example and
counsel, had moved the people to do the like, and did maintain the
lawfulness of this his action, in the face of t