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146 CHARLES II. AND SCOTLAND IN 1650
made by my Lord of Ormond with the Irish ; which his Majestie
by no meanes would yeild unto. In so much that the treaty for
3 dayes was intermitted, and had like upon that occasion quite
to have broken of, but the necessity of his Majesties affaires so
requireing to continue and perfect the Treaty, the King
yeilded thus farr, that if a free Parliament in the Kingdome
of Scottland should so thinke fitting, his Majestie then would
find some way how with honour and justice he might make
voyd that peace, in regard that the greater part of the Irish
had not with faithfullnesse adhered unto the Lord of Ormond
but had broken on their side.
In the meane time his Majestie would by no meanes permitt
that any such thing should be inserted into the body of the
Articles of Agreement; and it was concluded that that buis-
nesse should remayne in a distinct paper in the Earle of Cassells’
hands,1 in regard of the dishonor it might bring upon his
Majestie, and the dangers and prejudice it might bring upon
my Lord of Ormonde, and his Majesties frends in Ireland. No
sooner was this donne, but his Majestie labored to informe my
Lord of Ormond of what had passed, and immediately Mr.
Richard Weston, the 16th of May last, was dispatched from
Breda, and 1501 given him to defray his charge. But when
his Majestie came into Scottland he found him there, and he
alleaged that he was not permitted by the Scotts, and made other
frivolous excuses for his returne, though his Majestie did more
then apprehend it a practise betweene him and L[ord] W[ilmot]
and the Scotts, at which his Majestie was exceedingly troubled.
After his Majestie had put to sea, and was as high as the coast
of Denmarke, the Scotts comissioners shewed unto his Majestie
new and higher propositions (upon the defeate of Montrosse),
from the Kingdome of Scottland, so that unlesse his Majestie
would immediately take the Covenant, and in terminis breake
the peace make with the Irish, his Majestie was not to be
received into Scotland; by which heightnings of propositions
his Majesty was so disgusted that he resolved to have landed
in Denmarke, and lay aside all thoughts of comeing into
Scottland upon such tearmes; but overcome with the intreatyes
of his servants, who layd before him the present sad condition
of his affaires, he yeilded in terminis unto the breach of the
1 See Clarendon State Papers, vol. ii. App. Iviii. Note i.