137, etc.
** King's Decl.p.

87.
*** King's Decl.p.88.Rush, vol.ii.p.

751.
**** King's Decl.p.137.Rush, vol.ii.p.

762.
These successive concessions of the king, which yet came still short of the rising demands of the malecontents, discovered his own weakness, encouraged their insolence, and gave no satisfaction.

The offer, however, of an assembly and a parliament, in which they expected to be entirely masters, was willingly embraced by the Covenanters.
Charles, perceiving what advantage his enemies had reaped from their covenant, resolved to have a covenant on his side; and he ordered one to be drawn up for that purpose.