624 !the HISTORY of "the PURITANS. Chap. VI. K. CharlesI. rather to carry their manufablures home, than be obliged to re/ort to their ;639. pari/h churches, as by the archbifhops injunb7ions they were obliged. 163g. The eyes of all England were now towards the north, whither the King marches king went March 27th. to put himfelf at the head of his army raifed a- a;aily1 the ainft the cots the earls of Arundel, Efex and Holland being the chief g f g çocs, commandingofficers under his majefty. Thefrets under the command of general Lefley, received them upon the borders ; but when the two dpac;fication armies had faced each other for fome time, the king perceiving that his proteftant nobility and foldiers were not hearty in his caufe, gave wayto a treaty at the petition of the /Cots, which ended in a pacification June 17th. by which all points of difference were referred to a general affembly to be held at Edinburgh, Aug. 12. and to a parliament which was to meet about a fortnight after. In the mean time both armies were to be difbanded, the TABLES to be broke up, and no meetings held ex- cept fach as are warratited by ad of parliament. Accordingly the king difmiffed his army, but with very difobliging circumftances, not giving the nobility and gentry fo much as thanks for their affe&ion, loyalty, and perfonal attendanée, which they refented fo highly, that few or none of them appeared upon the next fummons ; thefcots delivered back the king's 1general af- forts and caflles into his majefty's hands, and difbanded the foldiery, wifely fembly at E_ keeping their officers in pay till they taw the effeEt of the pacification. d nburgh' The general afembly met at Edinburgh according to the treaty, but be- ing of the fame conftitution with the 1aft, the bithops prefented another declinator to his majefty's commiffioner [the earl of Traquair] and were excufed giving their attendance by exprefs letter from the king, his ma- jefty in his inftruEtions to hiscommifíioner having yielded them the point of lay- elders. Thea/èmbly therefore without any oppofitionconfirmed the pro- ceedings of that at Glafgow, which was of very dubious authority. They ap- pointed the covenant to be taken throughout the kingdom, and explained the bond of mutual defenfe to a confiftency with their late condu&. They votedaway the new fervice book, the book ofcanons, the five articles of Nalfon, Perth, the high commiffion, and withone confent determined, that diocfan p. 247. epifcopacy was unlawful and not to be allowed in their kirk. Which the earl King's in- of Traquair did not apprehend inconfiftent with his private inítrudions f`irutllons to from the king, were thefe " We allow epifcopacy to be abolith- bu cammif- " g+ > floner. ed-for the reafons contained in the articles, and that the covenant of 1580. Berwick, " for fatisfaEtion ofour people be fubfcribed. Again if they require cpif- i639 27' "copacy to be abjured, as contrary to the conflitution ofthe church ofScot- land, you are to give way to it, but not asa point ofpopery, or as contrary " ° to God's law, or the proteftant religion.Again in giving way to the a- " bolifhing epifcopacy, be careful that it be done without the appearingof " anywarant from the bithops in prejudice ofepifcopacy as unlawful ; but " only
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