plie with the publick good of his people, after he could no longer uphold his owne violent will; but, upon some discourses with him, the king uttering these words to him, " I shall play my game as well " as I can," Ireton replied, " If your maiestie have a game to play, " you must give us alsoe the liberty to play ours." Coli. Hutchinson privately discoursing with his cousin about the communications he had had with the king, Ireton's expressions were these ; " He gave us words, and we pay'd him in his owne coyne, when " we found he had no reall intention to the people's good, but to " prevaile by our factions, to regaine by art what he had lost in "fight." The king liv'd at Hampton-court ra ther in the condition of a guarded and attended prince, then as a conquer'd and purchas'd captive: all his old servants had free recourse to him; all sorts of people were admitted to come to kisse his hands and doe him obeysanee as a soveraigne. Ashburnham and Berkly, oy the parliament voted delinquents, came to him from beyond the seas, and others by permission of the armie, who had hoped they might be usefull to encline him to wholsome councells; but he, on the other side, interpreting this freedome wherein he was permitted to live not to the gentlenesse and reconcileablenesse of his parliament, who, after all his iniuries, yet desir'd his restitution, so farre as it might be without the ruine of the good people of the land, but rather believing it to proceed from their apprehension of their ownc declining and his re-advancing in the hearts of the people, made use of this advantage to corrupt many of their officers to revolt from them and betrey them; which some time after they did, and pay'd the for~ feiture with their lives.' When the king was at Hampton-court the K This is one of the places where we find reason to regret Mrs. Hutchinson's be ing so summary in her account of public affairs. This matter of endeavouring to bring the king to reason, and his perverting the good intentions of fHends as well as foes,
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