[Footnote 1:  Journals, viii. 461, 485.  Baillie, ii. 222, 223, 225, 267.  Rush. vi. 322-326.  To procure the money, a new loan was raised in the following manner.  Every subscriber to former loans on the faith of parliament, who had yet received neither principal nor interest, was allowed to subscribe the same sum to the present loan, and, in return, both sums with interest were to be secured to him on the grand excise and the sale of the bishops’ lands.  For the latter purpose, three ordinances were passed; one disabling all persons from holding the place, assuming the name, and exercising the jurisdiction of archbishops or bishops within the realm, and vesting all the lands belonging to archbishops and bishops in certain trustees, for the use of the nation (Journals, 515); another securing the debts of subscribers on these lands (ibid. 520); and a third appointing persons to make contracts of sale, and receive the money.—­Journals of Commons, Nov. 16.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1646.  Sept. 5.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1646.  Sept. 21.]

limits; it could not claim, it should not exercise, any authority within the boundaries of England.  This altercation threatened to dissolve the union between the kingdoms.  Conferences were repeatedly[a][b] held.  The Scots published their speeches; the Commons ordered the books to be seized, and the printers to be imprisoned; and each party obstinately refused either to admit the pretensions of its opponents, or even to yield to a compromise.  But that which most strongly marked the sense of the parliament, was a vote[c] providing money for the payment of the army during the next six months; a very intelligible hint of their determination to maintain their claim by force of arms, if it were invaded by the presumption of their allies.[1]

This extraordinary dispute, the difficulty of raising an immediate loan, and the previous arrangements for the departure of the Scots, occupied the attention of the two houses during the remainder of the year.  Charles had sufficient leisure to reflect on the fate which threatened him.  His constancy seemed to relax; he consulted[d] the bishops of London and Salisbury:  and successively proposed several unsatisfactory expedients, of which the object was to combine the toleration of episcopacy with the temporary or partial establishment of Presbyterianism.  The lords voted[e] that he should be allowed to reside at Newmarket; but the Commons refused[f] their consent; and ultimately both houses fixed on Holmby, in the vicinity of Northampton.[2] No notice was taken of the security

[Footnote 1:  Journals, 498, 534.  Commons’, Oct. 7, 13, 14, 16.  Rush. vi. 329-373.  Baillie, ii. 246.]

[Footnote 2:  “Holdenby or Holmby, a very stately house, built by the lord chancellor Hatton, and in King James’s reign purchased by Q. Anne for her second son.”—­Herbert, 13.  It was, therefore, the king’s own property.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1646.  Oct. 1.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1646.  Oct. 7.] [Sidenote c:  A.D. 1646.  Oct. 13.] [Sidenote d:  A.D. 1646.  Sept. 30.] [Sidenote e:  A.D. 1646.  Dec. 16.] [Sidenote f:  A.D. 1646.  Dec. 31.]