OF THE TREATY CARRIED ON AT RIPON BETWEEN KING CHARLES I. AND THE COVENANTERS OF SCOTLAND, A.D. 1640, TAKEN BY SIR JOHN BOROUGH, GARTER KING OF ARMS. EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. IN THE POSSESSION OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CAREW, WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS. 25, PARLIAMENT Street, 3;//2. [NO. c.] DA20 11100 COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1868-69. President, WILLIAM TITE, ESQ. M.P., F.R.S., V.P.S.A. ARTHUR ASHPITEL, ESQ. F.S.A. [Died Jan. 18, 1869.] JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. F.S.A. Director. WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ. F.S.A. Treasurer. WILLIAM DURRANT COOPER, ESQ. F.S.A. JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. D.C.L. EDWARD FOSS, ESQ. F.S.A. SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, ESQ. THE REV. LAMBERT B. LARKING, M.A. [Died Aug. 2, 1868] JOHN MACLEAN, ESQ. F.S.A. FREDERIC OUVRY, ESQ. Treas. S.A. EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A. The COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same. PREFACE. THE present volume contains new materials for the history of a very important transaction in the reign of Charles I.-materials which, with others of a similar kind, have recently and very unexpectedly come to light. The manner and the place of their discovery shall be stated in the sequel; we will first show what is the special historical position which the notes now published occupy. The different ways in which the ecclesiastical innovations of the time of Charles I. were met by the people of England and by those of Scotland were eminently characteristic of the two nations. In England, by a course of gradual retrogression, the very face of religion was altered. The churches resumed many of the ornaments of the ante-Reformation period; divine service was rendered more stately and ceremonial; the clergy obtained for themselves and for their altars the honours of a revived sacerdotalism, and were gradually proceeding to the practice of the usages which spring out of a belief in that system of Christianity. In the meantime, throughout all these innovations, the people, with the exception of some few extremely zealous persons, remained quiet and submissive. On the slightest indication of opposition the High Commission Court and other compliant tribunals were called into operation, and by the unsparing use of measures of repression the Elizabethan Church of England, which then first began to be termed Puritanism,a was effectually silenced. The only appeals to the people, which it a "We must not forget that Spalatro (I am confident I am not mistaken therein) was the first who, professing himself a Protestant, used the word Puritan to signify the defenders of matters doctrinal in the English Church. Formerly the word was only taken to denote such as dissented from the hierarchy in discipline and church government; which now was extended to brand such as were anti-Arminians in CAMD. SOC. b |