hat defeated. The next year being 1624, he resolved to have it kept
with great solemnity; but before that he was cut off on March 27, by
what they call a Quartan ague, in the 59 year of his age[274], but
(rather of poison as has been supposed) with such suspicious
circumstances, says a historian, as gave occasion of inquiry into the
manner of his death, in the first two parliaments of his son; all which
came to nothing by their sudden dissolution--_Welwood's memoirs_,
_Calderwood_, _Burnet_, _Bennet's memorial of Britain's deliverances_,
&c.

PATRICK SCOTT, a gentleman in Fife, being a violent enemy to the cause
of Christ and religion, after he had wasted his patrimony, had to take
himself to several wretched shifts at court; and amongst others set
forth a recantation under the name of Mr. David Calderwood then under
banishment; in which, it was thought, he was assisted by the king. But
this project failing, he set off for Holland in quest of Mr. David, with
a design, as appeared, to have dispatched him. But providentially he was
detained at Amsterdam till he heard that Mr. Calderwood was returned
home. This made him follow. After which he published a pamphlet full of
lies, intituled, Vox vera, but as true as Lucian's Historia. But after
all his unlawful ungodly shifts, he became so poor (and at last died so
miserable) that he had nothing to bury him: so that the bishop had to
contribute as much as got him laid below ground for the good service he
had done the king and bishops.--_Calderwood._

MR. WILLIAM FORBES (perhaps a son of the forementioned Forbes) was first
made doctor in Aberdeen 1621 and 1622. When the people of Edinburgh had
made choice of faithful Mr. Andrew Cant for their minister, the provost
sent and brought this Forbes, as one whom he and the episcopal faction
knew would please the king, and in this they succeeded to their desire;
for he was not only a violent presser of Perth articles, but he also
preached up Arminianism, and essayed to reconcile the papists and the
church of Scotland together anent justification. And when complained of
by some of the bailies and citizens of Edinburgh, all the redress they
got was to be brought before the council and by the king's order handled
severely by fining and banishment. When Charles I. came to Edinburgh
1633, he erected a new bishoprick there, to which he nominated this
Forbes for bishop as one staunch to his interest. No sooner got he this
power than he began