Chap. I. 'l'be HI ST 0 RY of the PuRITANS; 391'. •( 5.) ,, That his majefty ratify all that has been done in the parliament Common– " of Scotlanddin fon;fe la 1 te kf~ffikiodnsfi, adn~ ~.gn the covenant upon his arrival ~~~~~~· '' in that king om, 1 t e If e 1re It. . . ~ The k ing arrived in Scotland June 2 3· but before h1s landmg the corn-He arrives ~niffioners in lifted on his figning the covenant, and upon parting with all his in Scotland. old counfellors, which he did, and wa~ then conducted by the way of Aberdem and St. Andrews to his houle at Falkland. July 1 I. his majelly was– proclaimed at the crofs at Edinburgh, but the ceremony of his coronation was deferred to the beginning of the next year. In the mean· time Cromweli the englijh commonwealth was providing for a war which they faw was ma.rches a– unavoidable, and general Fairfax refufing to act againfl: thefcots, his com-~az'!fi the million was immediately given to Cromwell, with the title of captain-ge• _cots. mral in chiif' if all the forces raifed, and to be raifed by authority qf parliament, within the commonwealth of England. Three days after (viz.) : June 29. he marched with eleven thoufand foot, and five thoufand horfe, . towards the borders of Scotland, being refolved not to wait for the fcots · invading England, but to carry the war into their country. The ji:ots complained to the englifh parliament of this conduct, as a breach of the act of pacification, and of the covenant; but were anfwered, that they · had already broken the peace by their treaty with Charles Stuart, .whom they had not only received as their king, but promifed to ajf!ft in recover– ing the crown qf England, Their receiving the king was certainly . their right as an independent nation; but whether their engaging to affill him in recovering the crown of England, .was not declaring war, mull be left te the reader. July 22. the general crafTed the-Tweed,, and marched 'his ·army almofl: ~ as far as Edinburgh without much oppofition, the country being deferted by reafon of the terror of the name of Cromwell, and the reports that were fpread of his cruelty in Ireland. Not aJcots man appeared under fixty, nor a youth above fix years old, to interrupt his march. All provi– {ions were defl:royed, or removed, to prevent the fubfiil:ence of the army, . which was fupplied from time to time by fea; but the general having made proclamation, that no man !hould be injured in his perfon or goods . who was not found in arms, the people took heart and returned to their dwellings; The fi·ots army, under the command of general Lejly; fl:ood ·on the Battle of defenfive, and watched the motions of the englijh. all the month ·of D_unbar. Augl!ft; the main body being intrenched within fix miles of Edinburgh, ~~~m~ell to the number of ~hirty thou_fand of the bell men that ever Scotland [aw; p. 17 s. ' · general Cromwell d1d every thmg he could to draw them to a battle, till by Burnet• . the fall of rain, and bad weather> .he was obliged to retreat to Mu!felborough, .
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