If the queen, overawed by the power of the congregation, gave such a promise in order to have liberty to proceed to a sentence, how could she expect to have power to execute a sentence so insidiously obtained?
And to what purpose could it serve ?] [Footnote 4: NOTE D, p.24.Knox, p.

153, 154, 155.

This author pretends that this article was agreed to verbally, but that the queen's scribes omitted it in the treaty which was signed.

The story is very unlikely, or rather very absurd; and in the mean time it is allowed, that the article is not in the treaty; nor do the congregation, in their subsequent manifesto, insist upon it.

Knox, p.184.Besides, would the queen regent, in an article of a treaty, call her own religion idolatry ?] [Footnote 5: NOTE E, p.25.The Scotch lords, in their declaration, say, "How far we have sought support of England, or of any other prince, and what just cause we had and have so to do, we shall shortly make manifest unto the world, to the praise of God's holy name, and to the confusion of fell those that slander us for so doing; for this we fear not to confess, that, as in this enterprise against the devil, against idolatry and the maintainers of the same, we chiefly and only seek God's glory to be notified unto men, sin to be punished, and virtue to be maintained; so where power faileth of ourselves, we will seek it wheresoever God shall offer the same." Knox, p.