Note 102 — Chapter VI · THE SCOTTISH COVENANT.
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The King in one of his declarations characterised the difference between the old and new Covenant: the old required ‘that they should mutually assist one another, as they should be commanded by the King or any entrusted persons’; but the new bond, which he repudiated, ‘was made without our consent, and by it they swear mutually to assist one another, not excepting the King.’ St. P. O.