The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs. Vot. II. K. Charles I." fee how it is confillent with our covenant and treaties, but on the con- ~" trary, it would involve us in the guilt of perjury, and expofe us to the " hazard of a bloody war. We are bound by our covenazyt to defend the " king's perfon and authority, in the defence and prefervation of the true " religion·, and the liberties of the kingdom, and fo far as his ma– " je!ty is for thife we will be for him; but if his majelly will " not fatisfy the jull de fires of his people, both nations are engaged to pur– " fue the ends thereof, againll all lets and impediments ; we therefore de– " fire, that thofe who are intrulled with the public affairs of this king– " dom, would fiill infif1: upon his majefiy's fettling religion according to Proceedings of the Scots parliament relating to the king. Ru!hw. p. 392 • 'They deliver him up and publijb their najons " the covenant, as the only means of preferving himfelf, hiE crown, and " pofterity." Upon reading this admonition of the kirk, theJcots parlia– ment refolved, that his maje!ty be defired to grant the whole propofitions; thatin cafe of refufal, the kingdom lhould be fecured without him, They declared further, that the kingdom of Scotland could not lawfully engage for the king, as long as he refufed to take the covenant, and give them fatisfacrion in point of religion. Nor would they admit him to come in- . to Scotland, unlefs he gave a fatisfaetory anfwer to the propofitions lately prefented to him in the name of both kingdoms. The refolutions abovementioncd were not communicated in form to the king, till the beginning of January, when the Jcots commiffioners prefling him again in the mof1: humble and importunate manner to give them fatisfaClion, a~ leail:, in the point of religion, his majefty remained immoveable; which being reported back to Edinburgh, the queil:ion was put in that parliam(lnt, wbether tbey jhould leave the king in England, to his two houfes of parliament? and it was carried in the affirmative, Jmz. 16. a declaration was publilhed in the name of the whole kingdom of Scotland, wherein they fay, '' that when his majefty came to t}1eir army Ru!hw. P· " before Newark, he profefi'ed that he abfolutely refolved to comply with 39 6 · " his parliaments in every thing, for fettling of truth and peace ; in confi– " dence whereof the committees of the kingdom of Scotlanddeclared to " himfelf, and to the kingdom of England, that they received him into ," their protection only upon thefe terms, fince which time propofitions of ," peace have been prefented to his majefty for the royal afi'ent, with ear- " nef1: fupplications·to the fame purpofe, but without effeCt. The parlia– l" ment of.Scotland tl!erefore be!ng.now to re~al their army out ofEngland, 1" cor!fidermg that htS ma;ifiy mfeveral mtjJages has dijired to be near ~u ' " two houjes if parliament, and that theparliament has appointed his ma;ef " ty to rejide at Holmby houfe with fafity to his royal pe1_{on; and in rt· " gard of his majefty's not giving ajatiifa/Jory anfwer to the propqfitiomfor "peace ; and from a dejire to prejerve a right underjtanding between tbe " two kingdoms, and for preventing new troubles, the fiates of parlia~ent " of the kingdom of Scotland, do declare their concurrence for the kmg's 2 ··· maje!l:y's !
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