Guthry was a seditious preacher, and had personally affronted the king: his punishment gave surprise to nobody.

Sir Archibald Johnstone of Warriston was attainted and fled; but was seized in France about two years after, brought over, and executed.

He had been very active during all the late disorders; and was even suspected of a secret correspondence with the English regicides.
Besides these instances of compliance in the Scottish parliament, they voted an additional revenue to the king of forty thousand pounds a year, to be levied by way of excise.

A small force was purposed to be maintained by this revenue, in order to prevent like confusions with those to which the kingdom had been hitherto exposed.

An act was also passed, declaring the covenant unlawful, and its obligation void and null.
In England, the civil distinctions seemed to be abolished by the lenity and equality of Charles's administration.