Note 154 — Chapter IV · RENEWED DISTURBANCES IN SCOTLAND.

Baillie i. 218: ‘The Kings own exposition, declared to us by all the Communers, and taken first at their mouth by many extemporary penns, and there set down by themselves to be communicat to all, gave tolerable satisfaction.’ No doubt this was the original of the promise, which at a later period was so often brought home to the King, but which he never acknowledged.