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[[description::Proposed by the allied English Parliamentarians and Scottish Covenanters during the English Civil War that sought a negotiated settlement with Charles 1]]. Relations between the allies had deteriorated after it became apparent that the Scottish alliance was not going to bring about a swift military victory. The Covenanters began to associate with the "Peace Party" in the Westminster Parliament, which sought to end the war through a negotiated settlement with the King. Towards the end of 1644, the Covenanters insisted upon offering peace proposals, with the aim of strengthening the union between the Scottish and English parliaments and enforcing a Presbyterian religious settlement in both kingdoms.

The principal allied demands were made on [[date::01/29/1645|January 29th 1645]]

*The Solemn League and Covenant was to be sworn by the King and imposed upon all his subjects.
*Episcopacy was to be abolished in England and Ireland as well as Scotland.
*The parliaments of England and Scotland were to control the appointment of commanders of armed forces in their respective nations.
*Commissioners from the English and Scottish parliaments were to co-operate in directing the war in Ireland.
*Declarations of war or peace with foreign states would require the joint consent of both parliaments.

From the outset, there was little hope of King Charles agreeing to these terms. Apart from his uncompromising devotion to Episcopacy he believed that an outright Royalist victory was still within his grasp and regarded the divisions between the Scots and the Parliamentarian factions as signs of weakness. The failure of the Uxbridge Treaty left the Covenanters and the moderates in the Westminster Parliament no option but to support the continuation of the war.

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