23~ The HISTORY of the Pultl'tANs. Vot. II, K. Charles I. from one of the principalfcot's divines, profeifor Hamilton of Edinburgh. ~ the il:ory was invented by one of the fcots epilcopal writers, who had Hed to London, and was firft pu bli(hed in the beginning of the year 16 4 8. in a {mall pamphlet in quarto about two years after Mr. Henderjon's death. ·From this pamphlet Dr. Hey/in publithed it as a credible rejJort; between 30and 40 years after Hey/inhad publi(hed it, (viz.) I 693. Dr.Holling7vortb in his character of king Charles I. republiG1ed the paper abovementioned entitled the declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderfon, principal minifle; qf the word of God at Edinburgh, and chief commi!Jioner of the kirk of' Scotland to the parliament and jjnod qf England ; which paper the doctor fays he had from Mr. L amplugh, [on to the late archbJhop of York of that name~ from whom the hifl:oria ns above-mentioned, and fome others have copied it; but (fays my memorial ) upon publilhing the aforefaid fi:ory to the world, the affcmbly of the kirk of Scotland appointed a com– mittee to examine into the affair, who after a full enquiry, by their act of .Augujl 7· I 648 . declareJ the whole to be a forgery, as may be feen in the printed acts of the genera l aifc:mbly for that year, quarto page 420, .&c. in which they fignify their Cttisfac1:ion and affurance, that Mr. Hen– dnfon per6f1:ed in his former fentiments to his death; that when be left the king at Newcqfl!e ~e was greatly decayed in his natural ftrength; that Vid. hifi. Stuarts, p. he came from thence by fea in a languifhing condition, and died within 3 10. eight days after his arrival at E dinburgh; that he was not able to frame fuch a decl aration as is palmed upon him; and .that all he fpoke upon his death-bed £hewed his judgment was the fame as it ever h ad been a– bout church reformation. 'I his was attcil:ed before the aff'embly by feveral minifiers who vifited him upon his death bed, and parti cularly by two who conil:antly attended him from the time be came home till the time he V'd B • ex pired. After this and a great deal more to the fame purpofe, " they n:t'~ de~~of " declare the above-mentioned paper, entitled a declaration of Mr. Alex– his mem. p. "ander Henderfon's, &c. to be forged, Ji:andalous, and Ja!fe, and the l34· " author and conttiver of the fame to be void of charity and a good con- ,, fcience; a grofs lyar and calumniator, and led by the fpirit of the ac– " cufer of the bre thren." Parliament's While the king was debating the caufe of epifcopacy, the parliament propojirions to were preparing their propofitions for a peace, which were ready for the the krng 11 a 1 1 royal affcnt by the I 1 th of July. The ji:ots commiffioners demurred to Newcan e. h c r · - f JJ 1 · fl. d d b Rufhw. t em 10r 10me time, as not commg up u y tot 1e1r "an ar , ut at Vol. VI. p. length acquiefcing, they were engroifed, and carried to the king by the 309, 3"· earl of Pembroke and Montgomery and the earl of St:ffolk, of the houfe of ~:r:n&t peers; and by Sir Waiter Erie, Sir John Hzppijly, Robert Goodwin, and Luke Robertfon, Efq; of the .houfe of commons ; the earls of Arg)'leand Loudon were commiaioners for Scotland, and the reverend Mr. Marjhall · - ~ - · - ~as
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