Note 1090 — Chapter II
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That is, in England. In Scotland they did. It is quite clear that the Scotch disaffection dated from Charles's proposal and attempt, at the very outset of his reign, to recover the tithes that had been appropriated by the nobility. (Compare Burton, History of Scotland, v, 270; vi. 45, 75, 77-79, 84, 225; Burnet, Own Time, bk. i, ed. 1838, p. 11; Gardiner, History of England, 1603-1642, vii, 278; Laing, History of Scotland, 2nd ed. iii, 91; Sir James Balfour, Annals of the Stuart Kings, ii, 128; Sir Roger Manley, History of the Rebellions, 1691. p. 7.) This scheme, though dropped, was naturally never renounced in the king's counsels; and the Church riots of 1637, which are specially embalmed in the egregious myth of Jenny Geddes, are explicitly recorded to have been planned by outsiders. See Guthry's Memoirs, 2nd ed. 1747, p. 23. Burton (vi, 153) rejects this testimony on astonishingly fallacious grounds. Of course, the resentment of English interference with Scotch affairs counted for a great deal.