23/43 The Regent shall not molest the preachers nor suffer the clergy to molest them for cause of religion till that date. Keith, Knox, and Spottiswoode, add that no garrisons, French or Scots, shall occupy Edinburgh, but soldiers may repair thither from their garrisons for lawful business. In fact, they abode in the Canongate and Leith. This is certain, not only because historians, Knox excepted, are unanimous, but because the terms were either actually observed, or were evaded, on a stated point of construction. The Congregation left Edinburgh. |