107 he serv'd the parliament, and so uniust, that, without any remorse, he suffer'd his men indifferently to plunder, both honest men and cavaliers; so revengefull, that he persued his mall ice to Sr. John Stanhope, upon the forernen tion'd account, with such barbarisme after his death, that he, pretending to search for arms and plate, came into the church and defac'd his monument that cost six hundred pounds, breaking of the nose and other parts of it; lw digg'd up a garden of flowers, the only delight of his widdow, upon the same pretence; and thus woo'd that widdow, who was by all the world believ'd to be _the most prudent and affectionate of womankind, but deluded by his hypocrisies, consented to marry him, and found that was the utmost poynt to which he could carrie his revenge, his future carriage making it apparent he sought her for nothing elcc but to destroy the glory of her husband and his house. T lt is man kept the diurnall makers h in pension, so that whatever was done in the neighbouring counties, against the enemy, was attributed to him; and thus he hath indi rec tly purchas'd himselfc a name in story, which he never merited; who was a very bad man, to summe up all in that word, yet an instrument of service to the parliament in those parts. I thought it necessary to insert this little account of him here, because there will be often occasion to 11 Sir John Gell succeeded so far as to get some of this puffing intelligence introduced even into his .i\lemorials by VVhirelock; who, p. 186, talks of an expedition where he killed fi,re of' the enemy! He likewise gives him the honour of taking She1ford Manor, at least lwo years before it was really taken by Colonel Hutchinson. It is very much to be wondered at, that Mrs. Hutchinson no where speaks of hi s trial and co ndemnat ion for misprision of treason, which \Vhitelock notes in the year 1650, during the time of Mr. Hutchinson's being in the second council of state. He is said to have been conv icted ·on the full evidence of Bernard and Titus. Col. Andrews, who was condemned along with him, gave an attestation on his behalf a little before his death. VVhitelock does :uot say what this treason consisted in, but he was pardoned by the third counc il, just before Cromwell's usurpation : and was among those members of parliament who opposed him boldly.
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