Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 375 division.

Now look, last week I shamelessly and most unprofessionally left you with a dramatic and

cliffhangery kind of statement. I am sorry. It was just taudary and populist. I feel so

shamed.

Still, what was this grenade that the Scottish commissioners had lobbed into the English

body politic? And why did it knock the growing prospect of a peaceful outcome over Midwicket

for 6? Well, the Scots were worried about how things were going and not suggesting for

a moment that they wanted to derail a peace or settlement and condemn the three kingdoms

who wore far from it, but as I previously stated, as nausea I believe, it was essential

for them that it was the right kind of settlement, the right kind of peace. They did not trust

trials anymore, after all the evasions and half-truths and who can blame them. They did not

want Charles patching things up with the English Parliament and then appearing over the

border to rip up the most perfect Kirk and impose bishops upon them once more. So England

must become Presbyterian, the shelving of the Root and Branch petition, the apparent

moderation of Pym, Hamden and the Reformers put the wind up where it really had no right

to go. Plus, it seemed to them that the arch in Sanuary and the big danger to them all,

the King's right-hand man, the Lord, with the finger on the button of an Irish army,

was going to escape destruction and that would never do.

So the Scottish Commission has got their best wordsmith on the job, Alexander Henderson,

who'd penned the national covenant that had captured the imagination and aspirations

of a nation, and he broke out his Olive Anders box with his golden quill with core of

Phoenix's feather and penned a proclamation to make the Scottish cause rise from the

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