The nobles would have revolted against the feeble Duke.

{169} On July 6, the treaty of Edinburgh was concluded by representatives of England (Cecil was one) and of France.

The Reformers carried a point of essential importance, the very point which Knox told Croft had been secured by the Appointment of July 1559.

All French forces were to be dismissed the country, except one hundred and twenty men occupying Dunbar and Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth.

A clause by which Cecil thought he had secured "the kernel" for England, and left the shell to France, a clause recognising the "rightfulness" of Elizabeth's alliance with the rebels, afforded Mary Stuart ground, or excuse, for never ratifying the treaty.
It is needless here to discuss the question--was the Convention of Estates held after the treaty, in August, a lawful Parliament?
There was doubt enough, at least, to make Protestants feel uneasy about the security of the religious settlement achieved by the Convention.
Randolph, the English resident, foresaw that the Acts might be rescinded.
Before the Convention of Estates met, a thanksgiving day was held by the brethren in St.Giles's, and Knox, if he was the author of the address to the Deity, said with scientific precision, "Neither in us, nor yet in our confederates was there any cause why thou shouldst have given unto us so joyful and sudden a deliverance, for neither of us both ceased to do wickedly, even in the midst of our greatest troubles." Elizabeth had lied throughout with all her natural and cultivated gift of falsehood: of the veracity of the brethren several instances have been furnished.
Ministers were next appointed to churches, Knox taking Edinburgh, while Superintendents (who were by no means Bishops) were appointed, one to each province.