=8. King's Visit and Coronation.=--In 1633 Charles came to Scotland, and was crowned with great pomp in the Abbey church of Holyrood. The vestments that were worn on this occasion by the clergy gave great offence to the people. Their discontent was increased by an order from the King enjoining their own ministers to wear surplices, and the bishops to wear rochets and sleeves, instead of the Geneva cloak as heretofore. While Charles was in Scotland, a meeting of the Estates was held, in which he met with no opposition, owing to a new arrangement in choosing the _Lords of the Articles_. Formerly this committee had consisted of eight members from each _Estate_ chosen by their own peers; but now the bishops were first chosen, they again chose the barons, and barons and bishops together chose the commons, so that all those chosen were really the allies of the bishops. A supplication was drawn up to remonstrate with the King about this interference, but, instead of taking it in good part, Charles was very angry, treated their remonstrance as a political offence, and put the lord _Balmerinoch_, who had revised the supplication which was presented to him, in prison. He was afterwards pardoned, but this did not make the King any more popular, as it was thought that he had only liberated Balmerinoch from fear and not from goodwill. While in Scotland he founded a new bishopric at _Edinburgh_, which had formerly formed part of the diocese of _St. Andrews_. =9. Book of Canons.=--The discontent and distrust of the people which had been roused by the introduction of vestments, by the increase in the number of the bishops, and by the appointment of the primate as chancellor were now brought to a head by the appearance of a _Book of Canons_, or rules for the government of the Church. This book they were called on to accept in place of the Book of Discipline, on the authority of the King alone, unconfirmed by the _Estates_, and not long after the King attempted to change their form of worship as well. Through the influence of _Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury_, a Liturgy was drawn up on the plan of the first book of _Edward the Sixth_. From this Liturgy the Scotch clergy were commanded by the King to read prayers in the churches, instead of from the book of _Common Order_ which was still in general use.