...him with breach of Covenant. To which he answered, ' The Covenant which I took I own it and adhere to it. Bishops, I care not for them. I never intended...were every one sitting under his vine and under his fig tree, — that then you should have taken a party in England by the hand, and entered into a League...

...against " Churchmen's greatness," and yet maintained the doctrine of the 'divine right of Kings. own vine and under his fig-tree, that then you should...with them against the King — was the thing I judged my duty to oppose to the uttermost. That course of your's ended not but in the King's death, and overturning...

...quoted in our Introduction, p. 67. Montrose's opposition had clearly commenced on the same grounds. " Bishops, I care not for them. I never intended to advance their interest," — he declared before his death. —See Vol. ii. p. 539. under the superintendence of this philosophical...

...when he was charged with having broken the covenant. " The Covenant I took ; I own it, and adhere to it. Bishops, I care not for them. I never intended...desires, and you were every one sitting under his own vine and under his fig-tree, that then you should have taken a party in England by the hand, and...

...with breach of covenant ; to which he answered, ' The covenant that I took, I oun it and adhere to it. Bishops, I care not for them ; I never intended...the King had granted you all your desires, and you wer sitting, every one under his vine and his fig-tree, that then you should have taken a party in...

...him with breach of covenant; to which he answered, ' The covenant that I took, I oun it and adhere to it. Bishops, I care not for them ; I never intended...the King had granted you all your desires, and you wer sitting, every one under his vine and his fig-tree, that then you should have taken a party in...

...On the eve of his execution he thus expressed himself in prison to his clerical tormentors : — ' Bishops, I care not for them ; I never intended to...with them against the King, was the thing I judged my duty to oppose to the yondmost' — (Life and Times of Montrose, p. 485.) 1 This, written at the...

...On the eve of his execution he thus expressed himself in prison to his clerical tormentors : — ' Bishops, I care not for them ; I never intended to...with them against the King, was the thing I judged my duty to oppose to the yondmost.' — (Life and Times of Montrose, p. 485.) 1 This, written at the...

...railing recriminations, Montrose calmly replied — The covenant which I took, I own it and adhere to it. Bishops, I care not for them. I never intended...and you were every one sitting under his vine and his figtree, — that then vou shonld have taken a party in England by the hand, and entered into a...

...: But when the King had granted you all your desires, and you were every one sitting under his own vine, and under his fig-tree, that then you should...with them against the King, was the thing I judged my duty to oppose to the uttermost. That course of yours ended not but in the King's death, and overturning...