Both sides had reasons to fear a battle and on 6 June, the King sent a page to the Scots army camp near Duns to propose talks.
Negotiations formally began when a delegation of Scottish noblemen arrived at the King's camp near Berwick on 11 June.
Charles agreed, in turn, to withdraw English forces and, in order to resolve all disputed matters, he would call a General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in August, followed by a Scottish Parliament to ratify its decisions.
[1][2] Though both armies withdrew without a battle, the treaty had avoided any mention of the disputed issue of episcopacy, that is, whether the King could accept the Covenanters prior expulsion of bishops from the Church of Scotland and who had ultimate authority.
On hearing reports from Scotland, Charles was determined to continue the political struggle by force if necessary: I will rather die than yield to their impertinant and damnable demands[3][4] The treaty was rendered moot when conflict again broke out in the Second Bishops' War the following summer.