02.09 - The Calm Before the Storm

After signing a treaty with the king, the Covenanters find it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. The General Assembly meets once more, but the Parliament of Scotland is held up in procedure for weeks, before being prorogued. Aware of the danger of foreign intervention, the Covenanters continue their diplomatic offensive with fantastic results.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

• Adams, Goodare, Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions
• Russell, C The Causes of the English Civil War
• Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed
• Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629-1660
• Harris, T. Rebellion 
• Keynon, Ohlmeyer, The Civil Wars
• James Miller, ‘The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650’, in Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed), Fighting for a Living Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000
• Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
• Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War

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