Series 3 > Register of the consultations of the ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry > Volume 1

FIRST REGISTER: LETTER FROM L. BROGHILL 215
same without being comptable to these overseers or to
the justices of peace. Sic subr. Signed in the name and
by order of the Council!, Broghill, President.
Edinburgh, 5 February 1656.
Direct
To the Commissioners and Justices of the Peace
in the Schyre of Edinburgh.
Letters from the Lord Broghill
Worthy Sir,—The Parliament having appoynted a
generall fast to be keept throughout the three Nationes
upon the 30th day of this month, I thought fitt to give
you notice thereof, and that the directiones for that
fast are sent into Scotland. The conditions of these
nationes for the present calleth for publict humiliation ;
and I do think there will be no ground of scroupling as
to the keeping of that day by publick order in all the
churches of Scotland. I doubt not ’twill be considered
what prejudice it will be to your cause, what advantages
shall be given to all who are disaffected to it, and what
frustrationes will be putt upon the good intendment your
friends have for you, if the ministers of your judgment
should neglect to preach to their congregations that day.
What I have, Sir, by this hinted to you, I desire may be
made knowne to Mr Dickson, Mr Blaire, Mr Wood and
Mr Hutchison and your other Brethren, to whom I pray
present my service, and beleeve me, Your affectionate
friend and servant, Sic subr. Broghill.
London, 2 October 1656.
There are 1200 printed copies of the Declaration
for the fast sent down to the Generali to be dis¬
tributed through all the parishes in Scotland.
Direct
Ffor my worthy friend, Mr Robert Douglas,
Minister of the Gospell at Edinburgh, in Scotland.
Letter to Mr Ja. Sharp concerning the Fast
Reverend and Loving Brother,—Since your last to
us here, there came to our hands two letters from my Lord