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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- CHAP. I Campaign of Charles I against Scotland
- CHAP. II Relations of the English Court with the Court and Policy of France
- CHAP. III Relations of England with the army of Bernard of Weimar and with the Spanish fleet under Oquendo
- CHAP. IV Renewed disturbances in Scotland
- CHAP. V Strafford and the Short Parliament
- CHAP. VI The Scots in England
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
CHAP. IV - Renewed disturbances in Scotland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- CHAP. I Campaign of Charles I against Scotland
- CHAP. II Relations of the English Court with the Court and Policy of France
- CHAP. III Relations of England with the army of Bernard of Weimar and with the Spanish fleet under Oquendo
- CHAP. IV Renewed disturbances in Scotland
- CHAP. V Strafford and the Short Parliament
- CHAP. VI The Scots in England
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
Summary
The French nowhere found wider scope for this policy than in Scotland, where the Pacification of Berwick had not only not led to peace, but had stirred up yet more violent dissensions.
From the first moment different opinions were formed among the Scots with regard to this measure. Even among the Covenanters there were many who hailed it with delight. For what, they asked, must have happened if the King had continued obstinate, and they had been obliged to fight against him? Among the English, at all events, they did not find so much support as had been expected; even among the Scots the old divisions were reviving; many of the Covenanters felt their consciences smite them when they thought that they would be plunged into a bloody conflict with their King. But on the other hand it was remarked by others that the literal meaning of the conditions did not offer them any adequate security. They saw the camp broken up with feelings of dissatisfaction: for they thought that without such an army they would be obliged to submit to every dictate of the King. They complained that the agreement had been concerted in far too great haste by some few, without the concurrence of a sufficient number of nobility, gentry, and clergy.
Even at the moment when the Pacification was being concluded, these differences had made their appearance.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 169 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875