38 another. He therefore went to Richmond, where he found a greate ' deale of good young company, and many ingenuous persons, that by reaSon of the court, where the young princes were bred, entertain'd thcmse.Jves in that place, and had fi·equent resort to the house where Mr. HutchinsOt1 tabled: the man being a skilful! composer in music!<, the rest of the king's musitians often met at his house to practise new ayres and prepare them for the king; and divers of the gentlemen and ladies that were affected with musick, came thither to heare; others that were not, tooke that pretence, to entertain themselves with the companie. .Mr. Hutchinson was ,oone courted into their acquaintance and invited to their houses, where he was nobly treated, with all the attractive arts, that young weomen and their parents use to procure them lovers, but though some of them were v.ery handsome, others wealthy, wittie, well qua!li fi ed, all of them sett out with all the gayety and bravery, that vaine weornen put on to sett themselves of; yet Mr. Hutchinson coulcl not be intangled in any of their fiue snares, but without any taint of incivillity, in such a way of handsome rallerie reproov'd their pride and vanitie as made them asham'd of their glory, and Yext that he alone, of all the young gentlemen, that belong'd to the court or neighbourhood, should be insensible of their charms. In the same house with him, there was a younger daughter of Sr. Allen Apsley, late li<>ftcnant of the Tower, tabled for the practice of her lute, till the returne of her mother, who was gone into ·Wiltshire for the aeeomplisim1ent of a treaty that had bene nu1de some progresse in, about the marriage of her elder daughter, with a gentleman of that country, out of which my lady herself came, and where her brothers Sr. John St. John and Sr. Edward Hungerford, living in greate honor and reputation, had invited her to a visitt of them. This gentlewoman, that was left in tlte house with Mr. Hutchinson, was a very child, her elder sister being at that .time scarcely past it,. but a child of such pleasantnesse, and vivacity of spirilt, and ingenuity in the
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