Hence some importance for the Protesters in any counterweight there might be in Argyle's presence there already.
[1] [Footnote 1: Baillie, Letters to Spang, in 1655 and 1656, as already cited, with III.

568-573 for Instructions to Sharp and Propositions of the Protesters; Life of Robert Blair, 325-329.] No one was more anxious for the success of Mr.Sharp's mission than the good Baillie of Glasgow University, now in his fifty-fifth year, a widower for three years, but about to marry again, and known as one of the stoutest Resolutioners and Anti-Protesters since that controversy had begun.

He had had his discomforts and losses in the University under the new Principalship of Mr.Patrick Gillespie; but had been busy with his lectures and books, and the correspondence of which he was so fond.

Among his letters of 1654-5, besides those to Spang, are two hearty ones to his old friend Lauderdale in his London captivity, one or two to London Presbyterian ministers, and an interesting one to Thomas Fuller, regretting that they had not been sooner acquainted, and saying he had "fallen in love" with Fuller's books and was longing for his _Church History_.

This was not the only sign of Baillie's mellower temper by this time towards the Anglicans.