1-49 accommodation. This report of Sr. Thomas his dislike of his son's engagement was rays'd and disperst by those who themselves were ill-affected to it, but however it abated all the respects men bad fo_r him, upon any account but his owne. Those who had entertain'd a secret envie of him, now fear'd not to manifest it, and began to worke secret mines, to blow him up on all sides; but God was with him, and disappointed all his enemies, _and made his vertues more illustrious by the oppositions they encounler'd with, and the removal! of all those props of wealth and power which are necessary to hold up weaker fabricks. ' Soone after the death of his father, one M.r. Ayscough, a genP Here is in the original a marginal note in the following words: " The division of "Sir Thomas Hutchinson's estate. Sir Thomas Hutchinson being mightily belov'd in u the country, and a moderate man, using all his endeavour:; for peace, his estate was H never plunder'd in his lifetime; and though it is here fal sely insinuated that he apu proved of his son's conduct in taking annes against the king, 'tis most true that he H was extremely afflicted at it, being altogether for peace, and condemned such nu;h u councells as armes on both sides; and the miserys be saw his king and country inu volved in were certainly the occasion of his death: and though Sir T. H utchinson u sat longer in the house than many honest men, it was only in hopes by hi s moderate "councells to effect a hnppy p~ace between his king and country. All this I have u hea rd attested by his lady and relict, my grandmother. Teste J. Hutchinson." This is that testimony of Lady Katbar ine Hutchinson which was spoken of in the preface, and which, in attempting to impeach the veraci!y of the author in a single point, contributes largely to corroborate it in all. [n the very instance before us there seems much more reason for the opinion of Mrs. Hutchinson than of Lady Katharine: Sir Thomas Hutchinson had before been imprisoned for his opposition to the court; was in this parliament on all committees for the reform of religion; sat with the parliament after the war was deeply engaged; sent his sons arms, nnd promoted their desires to the parliament: it is incred ibl e that he should have any great objection to the pa rt they took, other than the general une of regretting that arms were ta-ken on either side. The most probable thing is that this lady, being of the same party and opinion as he r brother and family, and jealous of Sir Thomas Hutchin son's children by his former '~ife, intluenced him to their disadvantage in the mak1ng of his wil1, aud se t up these reasons to countenance it after his death. The other estates of Si~: Thomas Hutchinson in Notts were fully equal, if not superior, in value to that of Ow-
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