[148] Giustiniano, Aug. 19, Sep. 23, 1639: on whom we have principally to depend for information about this matter. [149] ‘La reine me dit, que le roi feroit tout ce que nous et les Hollandais pourrions souhaiter en leur faveur contre la flotte d’Espagne, sans néanmoins se déclarer ennemi, en sorte toutefois que les Hollandais auraient lieu d’entreprendre et faire tout ce que bon leur sembleroit: qu’il (le roi) voudroit aussi que je lui proposasse en recompense, de mettre Mr. le prince Palatin [he was not yet acknowledged Elector] à la teste de l’armée, que commandoit feu le duc de Weimar.’ Despatch of Bellièvre of October 9. [150] Bullion to Bellièvre: unfortunately not dated. Bellièvre’s despatch is of October 9: the battle in the Downs took place on the 21st. [151] The Venetian ambassador reckons them at this number. Cp. Thysius 239. [152] We learn from an intercepted letter of Leicester that he entirely approved of this: ‘s’il est reconnu je ne pourrois être soupçonné d’en être la cause.’ [153] Chavigny replied to Leicester’s complaint: ‘Le roi ne pouvoit pas faire moins à un prince, qui vouloit passer par la France incognito.’ Cp. Puffendorf, Rer. Suec lib xi. 59. CHAPTER IV. RENEWED DISTURBANCES IN SCOTLAND. The French nowhere found wider scope for this policy than in Scotland, where the Pacification of Berwick had not only not led to peace, but had stirred up yet more violent dissensions. From the first moment different opinions were formed among the Scots with regard to this measure. Even among the Covenanters there were many who hailed it with delight. For what, they asked, must have happened if the King had continued obstinate, and they had been obliged to fight against him? Among the English, at all events, they did not find so much support as had been expected; even among the Scots the old divisions were reviving; many of the Covenanters felt their consciences smite them when they thought that they would be plunged into a bloody conflict with their King. But on the other hand it was remarked by others that the literal meaning of the conditions did not offer them any adequate security. They saw the camp broken up with feelings of dissatisfaction: for they thought that without such an army they would be obliged to submit to every dictate of the King. They complained that the agreement had been concerted in far too great haste by some few, without the concurrence of a sufficient number of nobility, gentry, and clergy.