on, or House of Peers, (2)
Liberty of Conscience, (3) Unalterability of the Army arrangements
except by the Conservators--the Assembly proceeded to ballot on a
list of persons named by Ludlow as suitable for the office of
Conservators. All went as Ludlow wished for the first seven or eight
on the list,--dexterously arranged by him so because, being all men
of the Wallingford-House party except Vane and Salway, these two
could hardly in decency be blackballed. But then the order of voting
was broken; and, though Ludlow himself was elected, not another man
of the Parliamentarian party was let in. Actually, the Laird of
Warriston, who had declared publicly against Liberty of Conscience,
and Tichbourne, who had proposed to restore Richard to the
Protectorship, were preferred to such men as Hasilrig and Neville,
and made guardians of fundamentals in which they did not believe.
Ludlow then threw up the entire business in disgust, and resolved
that it was high time for him to be back in Ireland. Nevertheless,
his afterthought of the Fundamentals and their Conservators was
incorporated into Whitlocke's Constitution as it went back to the
Committee of Safety, with the ratification of the Council of Army and
Navy officers, This was on the 14th of December. The next day the
nature of the new Constitution was known to all who were interested,
and there was a proclamation for a Parliament to meet in February.[1]

[Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV. 377-380; Ludlow, 753-769; Letters of M.
de Bordeaux in Guizot, II. 306 and 315.]

Monk was now at Coldstream, on the Tweed, about nine miles from
Berwick. On the 13th of December he had taken leave, at Berwick, of a
deputation of Scottish nobles and gentlemen, headed by the Earls of
Glencairn, Tullibardine, Rothes, Roxburgh, and Wemyss, who had come
from Edinburgh with certain propositions and requests. As he was
going into England, leaving Scotland garrisoned but by a poor residue
of his soldiers, would he not permit the shires to raise small native
forces for police purposes, or would he not at least restore to the
Scottish nobility and gentry the privilege of wearing arms themselves
and having their servants armed? Farther, might he not, a little
while hence, sanction a general arming, so that Scotland might have
the pleasure of putting 6000 foot and 1500 horse at his disposal? The
minor requests were, within certain limits, granted easily; but
against the last Monk was still very wary. To h