FOOTNOTES:
[111] I have taken the description of these contending motives from an essay entitled, Révolte des Écossais (Biblioth. imp. at Paris, Melanges Harlay 218), with the inscription: ‘fait deux mois après la révolte d’Écosse’—apparently from the pen of a French Catholic who was closely connected with the English Court.
[112] Strafford Letters ii. 250.
[113] John Spalding: Memorials of the trubles of England and Scotland, i. 77, gives a very detailed account. He knew of ‘ane clandestine band drawn up and subscrivit secretly between the malcontents, or rather malignantis of Scotland and England, that eche one should concur and assist utheris, while they gat their willis both in church and policie, and to bring both kingdomes under a reformed religion, and to that effect to root out the bischopis of both kingdomes crop and root, quairby His Majesty should loiss ane of his trie estatis: and likevayes that they sould draw the King to dispenss with diverss pointis of his royall prerogative.’
[114] Cuneo, Dec. 18, 1637: ‘Io non contraverro mai ad alcuna di queste conditioni che voi pretendete, ma con vostra buona licenza, io voglio mostrare essere di quella religione che professo. So che il papa mi vorebbe altrimente che sono.’
[115] G. Giustiniano, Oct. 1: ‘Avanzate le loro istanze nel pretendere che anche in questo regno si chiami il parlamento per unitamente dare la miglior forma al governo.’
[116] As early as September 1637 the Venetian ambassador speaks of the ‘pericolo evidente che s’estenda la sollevatione anche per questo regno, dove i popoli non meno che gli Scocesi avidi si mostrano dell’ occasione di sottrarsi al giogo a cui poco a poco si sono universalmente piegati.’
[117] Compare ‘A design to extricate His Majesty out of these present troubles with the Scots,’ in Clarendon Papers ii.
[118] Chemnitz, Schwedischer Krieg i. 43.
[119] The pass given to Lesley by Charles I extends over a year (May 1637-38). In a Venetian report of April 1638 it is stated that Lesley had taken leave of the King in order to go to Scotland and from thence to Pomerania into the Swedish service. In that case Rothes must have induced him to remain behind.