Note 189 — Miscellaneous Historical Documents, RELATIVE TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS IN SCOTLAND—1639.

Privy Council Record. There are other Acts of Council relative to these matters—one on the 13th May, anent the fencing of Parliament (which was called for the 15th), and adjournment thereof to the 23d of July—and another on the 15th, in which it is recorded that the Lords of the Covenant had refused passports to Sir Tho. Hope and Sir Ja. Carmichael to go to the King; but these it is unnecessary to give. The meeting of Parliament was afterwards prorogued from time to time till November following.