The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: it bot perfwade. With the Prefbytrie I have fome hopes to come fpeed; with my Lord Eglintoun and my people, I have as yet none at all, their earneftnefs to ftick by me to the uttermoft, yet continues. I have fpoken to them publicklie that day, in the vifitation of my Church, as yow could have wifhed, bot...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: it bot perfwade. With the Prefbytrie I have fome hopes to come fpeed; with my Lord Eglintoun and my people, I have as yet none at all, their earneftnefs to ftick by me to the uttermoft, yet continues. I have fpoken to them publicklie that day, in the vifitation of my Church, as yow could have wifhed, bot no appearance of loofeing. As for my incoming to enter by any publick lecture, I did not promife it; and if I mould doe it, I would draw on my back a greater meafure of obloquie from all this countrie, nor I am able to bear, unleffe I would winn fome of my people to fome more filence, which I am labouring. However, if they will draw my caufe to the Affemblie, I fhall, in the face of it, avow my willingnefs to come to yow which is all I promifed; and much more than once I was minded ever to have done. If I can get more done with any peace of mind, poffiblie I mall doe more, bot more I have not, nor I will not promife. So praying God to blefs yow, and to direct me in this matter, which hes and does put me to great perplexitie, betwixt your drawing and others holding, I reft, Your loving Brother and Servant, Kilwinning, 2d (?) June 1642. R. Baillie. A Second Postscript Of Mr. William Spang's Letter Direct To Him, May 10TH, 1642. (') This much I had written to yow fome months agoe, and to acquaint yow with the true grounds of this great accident in my life, had fent to yow the verie autographes of the Letters which had paft betuixt me and all the agents of my removeall, that yow might judge of the honeftie or difhoneftie of my fact. As yet my heart does not challenge me, albeit crofles more than ordinar, have oft put me to a revifion of this matter; for my dear Wife, fince my being in England, hes been feeklie, and oft this twelve moneth near death. Alfo I have had within...