274 -of the king's physitians that was with them, that was call'd Dr. w.iJ, son, and was .a very ab le phys itian, :.but mistooke the method of his .cure, and made issnes in both his armes, which rather wasted his strength then his disease, and whe11 he was cur'd were stopt up . That spring, g rowing a little better for the present, he went to London, a nd having ineffec tually t ried several! physitians, Sr. Allen Apslcy perswaded him to make use of Dr. Frazier, with whom he began a course of physick, in the middst of which the doctor came and acquainted him that he was likely to be imprisou'd upon snspition of carrying on designes against the parliament underhand, for now the Scotts were threat'ning invasion and open wa rrc : he pmfess'd his innoccucy with many protes tations, and desir'tl Mr. llutch- ·inson to obliege him so farre as to engage for him that he mamtg'd no designe .but his calling ; which the collonell believing, under- .tooke for him to the committee of Derby-house; when the false Scott, having thus a bus·d him, Jeft a letter of lame excuse to him, and stole away out of England to the princes , then beyond the seas, leaving a blott upon Mr. I-Iutchinson for having undertaken for him: ' but he, acknowl edging his error to have bene so abus'd, was thereby warn'd from cred ulity of any of · that .false nation any more. That summer he attended the service of the house, being fi·eed for awhile from hi s distemper dur ing the smnmer till the fall of the leafe that it return'd againe. In the meane ·time iealousies were sowne betweene the .parliament, the citic of London, and the a rmie. The presbiterian faction were earnes t to have the armie di,banded .; the armie resen ted the iniurie, and, being taught to vallue their owne meritt, petiti on'd the generall that they might be sa tisfied, not only in things relating te themselves p~rticularly as an army, but the generall concernmenls and liberties of the good people of ·t he nation , " This Dr. Fmzier was afterwards employed ~y Charles the .Second to negotiate with the Scots.
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