146 expence in the service, being but ten pounds a weckc all,)w'cl by the state, and his expences all that time, only in the publick service, and not at all in any particular of his owne famcly, being, as it was kept upon account, abl9ve fifteen hundred pounds a ycare. Assoone as his father was dead, and rents became due to him, the enemies, in the middst of whom his estate lay, fetcht in his tenants and imprison'd them, and tookc his rents; his estate was begg'cl and promis'cl by the king; those who liv'd not upon the place, flung up his grounds, and they lay unoccupied, while the enemy prevail'cl in the country. He was not so cruell as others were to their tenan ts, who made them pay over agaiue, those rents which the enemie forc'cl them to redeemc, themselves out of prison with all, but lost the most part of his rents, all the while the country was under the adverse power; he had some .small stock of his owne plunder'cl, and his house, by the perpetual! haunting of the enemic, defac'd and for want of inhabit<ttion render'd allmost uninhabitable. For these things he hai:l some subscriptions," but never receiv'd any pennie· recompense, and his arrears of pay, which he rcceiv'd after all the warre was done, did not halfe pay the debts those services contracted.. But when he undertooke this engagement, it was for the defence of m By subscriptions is h~re meant acknowledgments or certificates g iven by the com- ·mittces, which parl iament professed to make good, but many times did not. But Col. Hutchinson's disinterestedness and devotion to the cause did not sufllce to exempt him from calumny, for in \-Valkc r's History of Independency, p. 166, et seq. a list is g iven of members of parliamen r, who ·were unduly retu rned, who held commands contrary to the sel f-denying ordinance, or had monie3 or offices given them. And Col. Hutchinson is accused of all three. How absurdly and unjustly every one must perceive. He wa!J regularly elected to parliament in place of hi s fath er deceased; he had a regiment which he rai sed, and in a great degree subsisted himself; he had a government, which, at the time of his undertaking it, was a charge others feared to accep t, and which for a long time was a loss and a detriment to him} and at the end of all he fell far short of receiving as much as he had expended. In the same place Mr. William Pi errepont is most invidiously accused of getting 40,000!.-but how~ it roas tlte ]Jersonal estate of his own father!
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