people, had a secret conviction upon them, that he had bene faithfull to them, and dcserv'd their love ; and in spite of their owne bitter zeale, could not but have a reverent esteeme for him, whom they often rayl'd at, for not thinking and speaking according to their opinions. This yeare Sr. Alien Apsley, governor of Barnstable for the king, after the surrender of that garrison came and reti r'd to the governor's house till .his composition with the parliament was compleated, the governor's wife being his sister, and the governor's brother having married the other sister: ' and this. was another occasion of opening the mouths of the ,mallignants, who were ready to seize any one to his preiudice. SI'. Alien Apsley had not his articles punctually perform'd, by which he suffer'd greatc expence and intollerable vexation, and the governor, no !esse concern' cl in the iniustice done to him then if he had suffdd it himselfe, endeavour'd to protect him only in that which was iust, and for this was call'd a cavalier, and sayd to have chang'd his party, and a thousand more iniuries, in which none were so forward as those who had all the while bene disaffected to the whole parliament party, but after they were conquei1d, burying their spite against the cause in their owne bosomes, snffer'd that secret fire to rise up in a black smoke against the most faithful! assertors of it. ·when the commissionel's went clownc to fetch up the ki.ng fl'om the Scotts, one of the lords coming to visitt the governor , and finding him at that time very sick, pcrswaded him to make use of one t1 Amongst the discords and distraction, public and private, which must have haras!ied the reader's mind, it is sooth ing for a moment to contemplate the harmony which reigned within Col. Hutchinson's famil_y, nnd the sincere friend ship between them nnd Sir Alien Apsley, which will reappear on many and frequ ent occasions to the very close of hi s 1ife. As this nmiable mnn, and all that concerns him, must interest the reader nearly in an eq ual degree with the principal subject, there has been in the preface a pedigree and account given of his family till it merged in th at of .13atburst.
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