HK 1ory o, f the Puritans, examin'eL 295 broad, on what pretext foever : And fo here- ' with I reft, Tour 4,ordfhirs moll Whitehall, HumbleServant, March, 46, Henry Vane. 640. The Prefervation of this Letter (lays Nalfon) appears very uncommon, and looks as if Provi- dence, interefted in the Vindication of oppreffed Innocence, had preferv'd it, to clear the Illuífri- E ous Memory of the Royal Martyr, from the barbarous Calumny, which the wickedeff of Man- kind endeavour'd to fix upon him, as being con- ' fcious of, and favouring this execrable Rebellion in Ireland. Whereas, this makes it evident be- ' yond the poffibility of Contradi&ion, that his Majefty took all the Care imaginable, to fup- preis the very firft Beginnings and Motions to- ' wards an Infurre&ion.' Variety of Authorities might be produc'd to the fame purpofe : which are referr'd to in the * Margin.' Neal, p. 504. They call'd themfelves the Queen's 4rmy, and publ /'d a Proclamation, declaring, that they aated by the King's Commigion under the Great Seal of Scotland, dated at Edinburgh, October t. and by Letters under his Sign Manual of the fame Date with the Common ; which Ibelieve, with Lord Clarendon, was a Forgery ; though it is a little unaccountable, that his Majefty Jhould never by any Publick Atl, or Declaration of his own, clear himfei offah a vile Calumny. Mr. Baxter owns, t ' That the foberer Part ' would not believe, that the Irifh Rebels had the * Bifhop Hacket's Life of ßifhop Williams, Part II. p. p. Rufhworth, p. 401. Dr. Hollingworth's Defence of the Royal Martyr, againft Ludlow, p. 36, 83. Mr. Long's Review of Baxter's Life, p. 190, to zt t. King Charles's Works, p, 533°, f36. Echard's Hiftory of England, Vol. II, p. 263, 5o8. t Baxter's Life, p. 29, U 4 ' King's
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