They were not obliged to receive any royal garrison, on condition of giving hostages to be kept by the king for two years.

Liberty of worship throughout the extent of their jurisdiction continued to be recognized in the case of lords high-justiciary.

Everywhere else the Reformers had promises of not being persecuted for their creed, under the obligation of never holding an assembly of more than ten persons at a time.

These were the most favorable conditions they had yet obtained.
Certainly this was not what Charles IX.

had calculated upon when he consented to the massacre of the Protestants.