When Charles placed six prelates on his Privy Council, and recognised the Archbishop of St Andrews, Spottiswoode, as first in precedence among his subjects, the nobles were angry and jealous.

Charles would not do away with the infatuated Articles of Perth.

James, as he used to say, had "governed Scotland by the pen" through his Privy Council.

Charles knew much less than James of the temper of the Scots, among whom he had never come since his infancy, and _his_ Privy Council with six bishops was apt to be even more than commonly subservient.
In Scotland as in England the expenses of national defence were a cause of anger; and the mismanagement of military affairs by the king's favourite, Buckingham, increased the irritation.

It was brought to a head in Scotland by the "Act of Revocation," under which all Church lands and Crown lands bestowed since 1542 were to be restored to the Crown.
This Act once more united in opposition the nobles and the preachers; since 1596 they had not been in harmony.