his countrie's and God's cause, and he offer'd himselfe and all he bad a willing sacrifice in the service, and rather prays'd God for what was sav'd, then repin'd at what was spent, it being above his expectation, that deliverance which God gave him O\lt of his enemies' band,s . He might have made many advantages by the spoyle of his enemies, which was often brought in, and by other encroachments upon the country, which allmosl all the governors, on both sides, exacted everywhere elce, but his heart abhorr'd it: all prize the souldiers had, and he never shar'd it; all mallignants' goods, the committee dispos'd of, and it ever griev'd his heart, to see the spoyle of his neighbours, how iustly soever they deserv'd it; but he chose all losse, rather then to make up himselfe,' by violence and rapine.. If in a iudiciall way, he were forc'd att any time, in discharge of his trust, to signe any harsh orders, against any of the gentlemen of the country, it was with griefe that they should deserve that severity, but this testimony is a truth of him, that in his whole actings in this cause, he never prosecuted any private lust, either of revenge, ambition, avarice, or vaine glory, under a public vizard, but was most truly publiek spirited. Conscious to God, and truth and righteousncsse, according to -the best information he could gett, engag'd him in that party he tooke; that which engag'd him, carried him through all along, though he encount'red with no less difficulties and contradictions, from those of his owne party, that were not of +he same spiritt he was, then from his enemies. The death of Sr. Thomas I-Iutchinson made every way a greate reverse in the affairs of his eldest sonne, who had before bene look'd upon as his father's hei re, and reverenc'd as much, or rather more, upon his father's score, then his owne, so that no man durst attempt to iniure him, whom they look'd upon under such a powerfull protection. S1,;. Thomas and his fathers before him had ever deserv'd very well of their country, and, as lovers of their country,. • Make himself up, make himself whole, reimburse himselt.
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