Index of Gardiner's History of England

Traquair, Lord, 1638 (John Stuart),

• is the leading member of the Scottish Privy Council,
• is hustled by a mob at Edinburgh,
• proposes the adoption of the English Prayer-book, and remonstrates against the organisation of the Commissioners,
• begs the Commissioners to propitiate the King,
• goes to London,
• informs Charles that there will be no peace in Scotland till the Prayer-book is withdrawn,
• stows the King's gunpowder at Dalkeith,
• fails to defend Dalkeith,
• is put under arrest for a short time,
• is attacked by a mob at Edinburgh,
• is appointed the King's Commissioner in Scotland,
• his appointment disliked by the Covenanters,
• gives assent to the Act of the Assembly of Edinburgh for the abolition of episcopacy,
• adjourns the Parliament,
• prorogues the Scottish Parliament,
• reports to the Committee of Eight,
• reports to the Privy Council,
• is sent back to tell the Scots that they may send fresh Commissioners to England,
• arrives in London, bringing the Covenanters' letter to the King of France,
• refuses to preside over the Scottish Parliament,
• repeats before the Great Council his narrative of the proceedings of the Scots,
• declares that neither the King nor Lennox knows of a scheme for accusing Argyle,