1640.—October 26.
8. Articles agreed on concerning the Cessation of Arms betwixt the English and Scottish Commmissioners at Rippon, the 26th day of October 1640.[275]
1. That there be a Cessation of Arms both by Sea and Land, from this present.
2. That all Acts of Hostility do henceforth cease.
3. That both parties shall peaceably retain, during the Treaty, whatsoever they possess at the time of the Cessation.
4. That all such persons who live in any of his Majesties Forts, beyond the River of Tees, shall not exempt their Lands which lye within the Counties of Northumberland and the Bishoprick from such Contribution, as shall be laid upon them for the payment of the £850 a day.
5. That none of the Kings Forces upon the other side of Tees, shall give any impediment to such Contributions as are already allowed for the Competency of the Scotch Army, and shall take no Victuals out of the bounds, except that which the Inhabitants and Owners thereof shall bring voluntarily to them: And that any restraint or detention of Victuals, Cattle, and Forrage which shall be made by the Scots within those bounds for their better maintenance, shall be no breach.
6. That no recruits shall be brought unto either Army from the time of the Cessation, and during the Treaty.
7. That the Contribution of £850 a day shall be only raised out of the Counties of Northumberland, the Bishoprick, Town of Newcastle, Cumberland, and Westmoreland; that the not payment thereof shall be no breach of the Treaty; but the Counties and Town so failing, it shall be left to the Scotch power to raise the same, but not to exceed the summ agreed upon, unless it be for the charges of driving to be set by the Commissioners of the Forrage.
8. That the River of Tees shall be the bounds of both Armies, excepting always the Town and Castle of Stockton, and the Village of Eggscliffe: And that the Counties of Northumberland and the Bishoprick of Durham be the Limits, within the which the Scottish Army is to reside; saving alwayes Liberty for them to send such Convoyes, as shall be necessary for the gathering up only of the Contributions which shall be unpaid by the Counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland.