And that you may without all fear or Danger of Detention, send such Persons unto the said Conference as you shall think most fit, if betwixt this and Sunday you send hither the Names of these you mean to imploy, His Majesty will with all possible diligence return a safe conduct under his own Royal Hand, for them and their necessary Servants.
His Majesty hath likewise commanded me to let you know, that upon your relieving of such Officers, and others of His Subjects, as are detained by you, he will return all such of yours as are his Prisoners, either here or at Berwick; and hereafter resolves, that fair Quarters should be kept betwixt both Armies. Thus having imparted His Majesties Pleasure, I continue
Your Lordships Servant,
Lanerick.
York, 24ᵗʰ of September,
1640.
1640.—October 16.
7. Articles agreed on for the Maintenance of the Scots Army.[274]
1. First, That the Scotch Army, now lying in the Counties of Northumberland, Bishoprick of Durham, and Town of Newcastle, shall have for a competent maintenance, the summ of £850 per diem, being the sum before agreed on by the Counties; and that the payment thereof shall begin upon the 16th of October, and to continue for two Months, in case the Treaty shall so long last; which payment to be made weekly upon the Friday of every Week, the first Friday being the twenty-third day to be for the payment of the Week past.
2. The dayes of the returning of the Army to be numbred, within the dayes of the allowed maintenance.
3. That the Scotch Army shall content themselves with the aforesaid maintenance, and shall neither molest Papists, Prelates, nor their adherents, nor any other persons of whatsoever quality, during the time of payment, but shall keep themselves free of all other Taxes and Plunderings not only during their abode, but in their returns, and such security as is usual shall be given for the performance of the same, and this to be ordered upon the condition of the Treaty.
4. That the Inhabitants of the said Counties shall also have liberty to return peaceably to their own dwellings, and shall be refused no Courtesie, it being alwayes presupposed that the fit Lodging of their Army shall be allowed.