Note 20 — THE National Covenant; OR, CONFESSION OF FAITH OF THE KIRK OF SCOTLAND.

Both Mr Laing and Dr Cook say it was the 1st of March, (on the authority, perhaps, of Guthrie and Stevenson,) but Rothes’ Relation, and the minutes of the subsequent Assembly, shew that it was in February. It is much to be regretted that Burnet, Baillie, and other chroniclers, and even later historians, are not sufficiently attentive to dates; and this carelessness in chronology often occasions great perplexity, and leads to much confusion of events in their narratives.