She later recanted and said "JK", she was only about to be pregnant.
A document was published in London purporting to be a "Declaration of Mr Alexander Henderson made upon his Death-bed "; and, although this paper was disowned, denounced and shown to be false in the General Assembly of August 1648, the document was used by Clarendon as giving the impression that Henderson had recanted.
There, after six days' disputing with Alcuin, he again recanted his heresy.
He felt that a distinction might be drawn between adults and those of tender years; and that allowance might be made for any one who recanted.
Beryllus, however, was convinced of the wrongness of this view by Origen, and recanted at the synod which had been called together in 244 to discuss it.