Chap. X. 7be HISTORY of the PuRirANs. 353 " your own wifdom £hall fuggert, and then be pleafed to give your royal K. Charles'!, " confent to the particulars above fpecified, that both yourfelf and your ~ " people may have caufe to rejoice." · The ~ommittee of fiates in Scotland joined with the parliament com- States of miffioners in befeeching his majeity to accede to the propojition about re- Scotland figion which they underfiood to be the point his majell:y mort fiuck Pk~e~ the ' f1: . zng s can .. at, and which they in honour and interell: were obliged mo to mfifi fent. upon, and without which (they add) his throne cannot be ejtabiijhed in Ru!hw. rigbteoujheji. They alfo wrote to the prince if f!'ales to mediat~ with P· 1 304, his father. The general q[femb!y, and the commtffioners of the k1rk of Scotland, fent at the fame time two angry letters, for (it was (aid) they could fpeak more plainly in the name of their mifter, than the commiffioners of efiates would venture to do in their own. But his majeity Clarend. was deaf tQ all remonl1rances and perfua1ions, being determined if his P· 224. . two bou(es did not think fit to recede from the rigor of their demands in Ru~w. 3~4 the(e particulars, to call: himfelf (as he (aid) on his Saviour's goodne[s 132 ' 1 J ' to fupport and defend him from all afflictions, how great [oever which might befal him, rather than upon politic confiderations deprive himfelf of the tranquillity of his mind ; and therefore, excepting his majell:y's confent to /icenp the ajjembly's !l!ffer catechijin with a proper priface, in all other matters in difference he refolved to abide by his former anfwers. At the c!ofe of the treaty the king made a lhort fpeech to the com- King's ./Puck rniffioners, in which he reminds them how far he had condefcended for to tbe cam– the fake of peace. He defired them to pnt a good interpretation on his v;qonpN;. vehement expreffions on fome part of the debates, there being nothing N~ ·s3~m. in his intentions but kindnefs; and that as they had ufed a great deal of · freedom, and £hewed great abilities in their debates, which had taken him off from fome of his opinions, that they would u[e the fame freedom with his two hou[es, to prefs them to an abatement of thofe things in which his confcience was not yet fatisfied, which more time might do, his opinions not being like the laws of the Medes and Perjians unalterable or infallible; adding his very hearty thanks for the pains they had taken to fatisfy him, profdling that he wanted eloquence to commend their abilities. He defired them candidly to repreient all the tra nfactions ~f the treaty to his two houles, that they might fee nothing of his own mterell:, how near or dear foever (but that wherein his confcience is not fatisfied) can hinder, on his part, an happy conclufion of the treaty. .The king's conc~ffion~ were certainly a fi1fficient foundation for peace Remark;. with the presb)'terta~s, tf they could have been relied upon, and were fo voted by the parltament when it was too late; H is majefiy had given VoL. li. Z z up
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