but they
took care to publish only the articles favorable to themselves, and they
were guilty of an imposture, in adding one to the number, namely, that
idolatry should not again be erected in any place where it was at that
time suppressed.[*] [4]

An agreement concluded while men were in this disposition, could not be
durable; and both sides endeavored to strengthen themselves as much as
possible against the ensuing rupture, which appeared inevitable. The
regent, having got a reenforcement of one thousand men from France,
began to fortify Leith; and the congregation seduced to their party the
duke of Chatelrault, who had long appeared inclined to join them, and
who was at last determined by the arrival of his son, the earl of Arran,
from France, where he had escaped many dangers from the jealousy, as
well as bigotry, of Henry and the duke of Guise. More French troops soon
after disembarked under the command of La Brosse, who was followed by
the bishop of Amiens, and three doctors of the Sorbonne. These last
were supplied with store of syllogisms, authorities, citations, and
scholastic arguments, which they intended to oppose to the Scottish
preachers, and which, they justly presumed, would acquire force,
and produce conviction, by the influence of the French arms and
artillery.[**]

* See note D, at the end of the volume.

** Spotswood, p. 134. Thuan. lib. xxiv. c. 10.

The constable Montmorency had always opposed the marriage of the dauphin
with the queen of Scots, and had foretold that, by forming such close
connections with Scotland, the ancient league would be dissolved; and
the natives of that kingdom, jealous of a foreign yoke, would soon
become, instead of allies, attached by interest and inclination, the
most inveterate enemies to the French government. But though the event
seemed now to have justified the prudence of that aged minister, it is
not improbable, considering the violent counsels by which France
was governed, that the insurrection was deemed a favorable event; as
affording a pretence for sending over armies, for entirely subduing the
country, for attainting the rebels,[*] and for preparing means thence to
invade England, and support Mary's title to the crown of that kingdom.
The leaders of the congregation, well acquainted with these views, were
not insensible of their danger, and saw that their only safety consisted
in the vigor and success of their measures. They were encouraged by