220 ment's interest in those parts was so low, and the hazard so desperate, that these pittifull wretches, as well as the other faithful! hearted to the publique cause, courted him to accept and keepe the place, and though their fowle spirits hated the day-light of his more vertuous conversation, 'yet were they willing enough to let him beare the brunt of all the hazard and toyle of their defence, willinger to be secur'd by his indefatigable industry and courage, then to render him the iust acknowledgment of his good deserts. This ingratitude did not at all abate his zeale for the publick service, for as he sought not prayse, so he was well enough satisfied iri doing well; yet through their envious eyes, they tooke in a general! good esteeme of him, and sin'd against their owne consciences in persecuting him, whereof he had after acknowledgments and testimonies from many of them. All the while of this contest, he was borne up by a good and honorable party of the committee, and greater in number and vallue then the wicked ones, whom Mr. Millington's power in the house only countenanc'd and animated to persue their mischiefes. vVhat it was that drew Mr. Millington into their confederacy was afterwards apparent; they hir'd him with a subscription of losses, for which they gave him publick faith double to what he really had lost;. and they offer' cl him a share of the governor's spoyles, if he would helpe them to make him a prey, which would have bene good booty to his meane family; tor although the governor had hitherto gott nothing but desperate hazard and vast expence, yet now this garrison began to be in a more hopeful! condition, by the ·pity a man of Coli. Hutch inson's exalted mind for being compelled to cope with such despicable adversaries, but they will der ive some pleasure from observing the address with which he foiled their insidious attacks. a Of this custom of applying to the parliament for reparation or compensation, and of its being gmuted generally at the expeuce of delinquents or cavaliers, there appear many instances in YVhitelock-no doubt many abuses crept in. In Walker's Hist. of Independ. p. 8 1, Nlr .l\1illington is declared to have received in this manner ~oool.
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