ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a different approach and examines the overall period of patriotic accommodation, from looking briefly at the early attempts at accommodation in January 1645. It also looks at the beginning of the negotiations at Uxbridge and Newcastle, which detail all the major stumbling blocks between the Royalists and Presbyterians which were to plague both parties in the 1640s and the 1650s, before moving on to look in more detail at the period from the Royalist Engagement of 1648 to the end of Glencairn's rising in 1654. The monarch was given a central role in the covenanting imperative, as seen in both the National Covenant of 1638 and the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643. Nevertheless, it remains a powerful expression of an ideal Covenanted monarch who was to reign over three Stuart kingdoms. In maintaining Anglo-Scottish bonds, the Commission sincerely believed that it was reversing the damage done by the Royalist Engagement.
