Other circumstances about the same period encouraged the Scotch. Their army was to be disbanded, and their troops were to be paid--a point respecting which the commissioners had been very solicitous--and a promising treaty between the two countries appeared on the eve of ratification. To the desire of the northern brethren respecting unity of religion, it was answered in the treaty, that his Majesty, with the advice of both Houses, approved of the desire of ecclesiastical conformity; and since Parliament had already taken it into their consideration, they would proceed in a manner conducive to the glory of God and the peace of the two kingdoms.[210] This passage is equivocal, for it might signify conformity to Episcopal or conformity to Presbyterian government. The King, no doubt, meant in his heart the former, but was quite willing at the same time that his subjects in the North should understand the latter. [Sidenote: _Royal Visit to Scotland._] When affairs were coming into this posture, Charles determined to visit his native land. Into his political motives for so doing this is not the place to enter--whether he hoped thereby to procure an adjournment of Parliament; or thought that he should break up the combination between the northern and southern patriots; or expected to obtain evidence and assistance against the latter by conference and co-operation with the antiCovenanters under Montrose. But most certainly his intention in reference to religion, as appears from his conduct, was to conciliate his countrymen and to throw them off their guard by veiling his strong attachment to Episcopacy, under an assumed friendliness for Presbyterianism. [Sidenote: 1641, August.]