He has been very civil to Mr.Douglas and Mr.Dickson, and is very intime with Mr.James Sharp.

By this means we [the Resolutioners] have an equal hearing in all we have ado with the Council.

Yet their way is exceeding longsome, and all must be done first at London." So far as Broghill's communications with London might serve, the Resolutioners, therefore, might count on him as their friend.

And by this time he had reasons to show.

Had he not succeeded, where the stern Monk had failed, in inducing the Resolutioner clergy to give up public praying for King Charles and otherwise to conform; and was it not on this ground that Monk was believed still to befriend the Protesters?
But perhaps it hardly needed Broghill's representations to induce Cromwell to reconsider his Scottish policy in regard to the Kirk.