72¢ The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. IX. K. Chutes I. " That fome noblemen, &c. of the (cols nation, (hall be placed about 164r. LP the king ; and that his majefty will endeavour to give juts fatisfadion " to his people, with regard to his placing none but perfons of the reform- " ° ed religionabout his own and the prince's perfon." Then follows an ad of oblivion, with exception to the fats prelates, and four others ; and in the clofe the ratification of the whole in thefe words. " Be it enaEied by his majefty, with the affent of the lards and com- " mons in this prefent parliament affembled, that the Paid treaty, . and all the articles thereof be and Rand for ever ratified and efiab- " tithed, and have the force, vigour, flrength and authority of a law,_ flatute, and ads of parliamentAnd his majefty for.himfelf and his fucceffors, promifes in verbo principio, never to come in the contrair of " this flatute and fanaion, nor any thing therein contained, but to hold " the fame in all points firm and fiable, and caufe it to be truly obferved, " according to the tenor and intent thereof, now and for ever ---And. " the parliaments of both kingdoms refpedtively give full affurance, and " make public faith, for the true and faithful obfervation of this treaty,, " &c. hint inde, in all times to come.. Bithop Burnet very juftly obferves a collufion in the king's approving the defire of hisfesta fubje&s for uniformity ofchurch government ; his ma- jeft)? withed it as much at they, but with a very different view ; the king, was for bringing them to the englifh ftandard, whereas the jeots intended to bring the englifh to theirs ; however his majefty was refolved to con- tradi& them in nothing, that he might break the confedracy between the two nations ; for lord Saville had now informed him of the correfpondence of Tome of the englifb nobility with the (cots, which encouraged them to raife an army and march to the borders ; he had fhown him a copy of . the letter, with the forged names of Ejex, Bedford, Mandeville, and . others, exciting . them to afíert the liberties of their church and nation;. and promifing all the affiftance they could give with fafety to them- felves._ His majefty therefore refolved to gain over the fads, that he might be at liberty to profecute the limiters, and recover his prerogative in England, which he knew he could accomplifh by the affiftance of the irifh, if the englifh puritans were left to themfelves. The parliament . were aware of the defign, and therefore appointed one lord and two com- moners to follow his majefty to Scotland, in order to keep up a good . correfpondence with the parliament of that nation, and to exhort, them, fince they had gained their own liberties by the affiftance of the englifh parliament,, not to defers them till the engli/h alfo had reco -. vexed. theirs,. They
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