The Remonstrance

Religious faction drew up a formal remonstrance denouncing the alliance with this ungodly king who was trying to force himself on an unwilling england. In november, cromwell launched a two pronged attack into the west of scotland. The western association army, acting with bad intelligence, attacked lambert's column and was promptly destroyed. But it also allowed the reconvened scottish parliament, now dominated by argyle, to open up recruitment to all those men that the remonstrances had deemed insufficiently committed to the covenant. So mostly old royalists and ex engagers, who thus far had been told to stay home, were