The British nation a history / by George MWrong . St. Giles, Edinburgh, there was a riot when the formof prayer was first used, on August 23, 1637. Some ofthose present began to shout that the mass was once morerestored, and a female zealot, when an adjoining worship-per said Amen to one of the prayers, struck him in theface with her Bible, crying, Traitor, dost thou say massat my ear ? All Scotland was soon aflame, most of thebishops fled from the country, and by March, 1638, theScots were freely signing a National Covenant to resistthe kings innovations. The Scottish Church Assemblyme
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . St. Giles, Edinburgh, there was a riot when the formof prayer was first used, on August 23, 1637. Some ofthose present began to shout that the mass was once morerestored, and a female zealot, when an adjoining worship-per said Amen to one of the prayers, struck him in theface with her Bible, crying, Traitor, dost thou say massat my ear ? All Scotland was soon aflame, most of thebishops fled from the country, and by March, 1638, theScots were freely signing a National Covenant to resistthe kings innovations. The Scottish Church Assemblymet at Glasgow in November; when commanded by thekings commissioner to dissolve it refused to obey, andproceeded to depose the bishojis and to declare the newcanons and Prayer-Book null and void. Such defiancemeant war; Charles accepted the challenge, and at Ber-Avick in the summer of 1639 his army stood face to facewith the Scots in arms under Alexander Leslie. But asthe king dared not summon the English Parliament to 362 THE BRITISH NATION /u^T^. John Hampuen (1504-11340). ask for money, and without it could not keep his forcein the field, he made terms. On June 18 he signedwhat is called the Treaty of Berwick, agreeing that theAssembly and the Estates or Par-liament should meet to determinethe religious question. They metat Edinburgh and declared for theabolition of episcopacy. Charles,as unchanged in his resolution asthey, would not accept this deci-sion; he adjourned the Parliamentand prepared again for an appealto arms. The year 1639 marks the crisisof Charless policy. Scotland wasopenly in revolt. In England hisright to levy taxes was attackedanew in the law courts; John Hamj)den, a wealthy coun-try gentleman, denied the legality of ship-money, now,in Charless financial distress, levied on inland places aswell as on seaports. A bare ma-jority of the judges decided infavour of the tax, but the situa-tion was so serious that CharlesTV,. c„^^.„;.„. liad need of his ine
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