The Pacification of Berwick ended the First Bishops War without a battle but settled nothing. Both sides used the truce to rearm. Charles I was humiliated and refused to accept the abolition of episcopacy. The treaty produced the Second Bishops War within a year. Berwick itself was a symbol — the contested border town whose possession had changed hands repeatedly over centuries.
Both armies in proximity; negotiations between commissioners
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