of the honest Presbyterian party."] [Footnote 2: Council Order Books of dates.] [Footnote 3: Council Order Books of date, and Baillie, III.

356 and 365-366.

Another interesting item of Scottish History under Cromwell's rule may have a place here, though it belongs properly to the First Protectorate.

In the Council Order Books under date Feb.
17, 1656-7, is this minute:--"On consideration of a report from his Highness's Attorney General, annexed to the draft of a Patent prepared by his High Counsel learned, in pursuance of the Council's order of the 13th of January last, according to the purport of an agreement in writing presented to the Council under the hand of the Provost of Edinburgh on behalf of that city and of Dr.Purves on behalf of the Physicians of Scotland, the same being for erecting a College of Physicians in Scotland: _Ordered_, That it be offered to his Highness as the advice of the Council that his Highness will be pleased to issue his warrant for Mr.Attorney General to prepare a Patent for his Highness's signature according to the said Draft."] [Footnote 4: Council Order Books, Aug.

14, 1656.] Next to the Propagation of the Gospel by an Established Ministry everywhere, the fixed idea of Cromwell for his Home-Government, as we have had again and again to explain, was toleration of all varieties of religious opinion.