1oo a few dayes after her brother was taken, was brought to bed of her eldest daughter, which by reason of the mother's and the nurse's griefcs and frights, in those troublesome times, was so weakc a child that it liv'd not foure yeares, dying afterwards in Nottingham castle. vVhen Mr. Hutchinson came to his wife, he carried her and her children, and his brother, back againe to his house, about the time that the battle was fought at Edge Hill. After this the two brothers, going to Nottingham, mett there most of the godly people, who had bene driven away, by the rudenesse of the king's armie, and plunder'd upon the account of godlinesse, who were now return'd to their famelies, and desireous to live in peace with them, but having, by experience, found they could not doe so, unless the parliament interest were maintein'd, they were consulting how to rayse some recruites for the Earle of Essex, to assist in which Mr. Hutchinson had provided his plate and horses ready to send in. About this time Sr. John Gell, a Derbyshire gentleman, who had bene sheriffe of the county, at that time, when the illegall tax of ship-money was exacted, and so violent in the prosecution of it, that he stcrv'd Sr. John Stanhope's cattle in the pound, and would not suffer any one to rclie\·e them there, because that worthy gentleman stood out agaiust that uniust payment, and who had by many aggravating circumstances, not only concerning his prosecution of Sr. John Stanhope, but others,. soe highly misdemean'd himselfe that he lookt for punishment from the parliament, to prevent it, very early p utt himselfe into their service, and after the king was gone out of these conntries, prevented the cavalier gentry fi-om seizing the towuc of Derby, and fortified it, and rays'd a regiment of foote. These were good, stout, fighting men, but the most licentious ungovernable wretches, that belonged to the parliament. He himselfe, no man knowes for what reason he chose that side; for he had not understanding enough to iudge the equity of the cause, nor pietie or bolinesse, being a fowle adulterer all that time
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