had had the least susp1t10n of the governor or his brother, or the least ground of any. When this had bene with stiffnesse and impu- · deuce enough outfac'd before the committee, Mr. Pierrepont, then fully convinc'd of their devillish ma:llice, pull'd a letter out of his pockett, wherein Mr. Mill ington made this suggestion to him against the governor and his brother, and desir'd that he might be arm'd with power to preven't and suppresse them. This would have made others asham'd, but their soll icitor was notwithstanding impudent and rudely pressing upon the committee, who though they were persons of honor, and after they discover'd the governor's innocence, not forward to oppresse him, yet as they were statesmen, so were they not so ready to relieve him as they ought to have bene, because they cou ld not doe it without a high reflection upon one of their owne members, who encouraged all those little men in their wicked persecution of him. They were such exquisite rogues, that all the while some of them betrey'd one another to the governor, and told him, under pretence of honesty and conscience, the bottornc of their whole designes, shew'd the fowll originall draughts of their articles, in the men's owne hands that contriv'd them; and told him how not so much aislike of him, as covetousnesse and ambition to advance themselves upon his ruines, engag'd them thus against him, and made them contrive that villainy to accuse him and his brother of treachery, and to have sciz'd their garrisons, under that pretence, and gotten them to be made prisoners; and then Mr.'Millington undertooke to have lodg'd their petitions so in the parliament, that they should never haYe bene heard and reliev'd: CoiL Thomhagh too was to be wrought out of his command, and they had divided the spoyle before they canght the lions. M illingt011's sonnc was dcsign'd to be governor of the cas tle: the ten pounds aweckc allow'd for the governor's table, so many of the committee-men were to \ a lt is averred in the Hist. of lnc.lcpend. (c that the active speaking men pack <·omu mittees who ca rry all the businesses o f house as they please , and when the matter is u too bad smother it with artificial delays."
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