It followed, from this state of disorganization, that the whole army appeared at once to resolve itself into a general committee for considering what steps were to be taken in consequence of their success, and no opinion could be started so wild that it had not some favourers and advocates.

Some proposed they should march to Glasgow, some to Hamilton, some to Edinburgh, some to London.

Some were for sending a deputation of their number to London to convert Charles II.

to a sense of the error of his ways; and others, less charitable, proposed either to call a new successor to the crown, or to declare Scotland a free republic.

A free parliament of the nation, and a free assembly of the Kirk, were the objects of the more sensible and moderate of the party.