1278 lords formerly of his privie councell at Oxford alsoe repaired to him, to be as a councell a ttending him, but this was so much disgusted a t London that they retreated againe: but the Scotch lords and cotmujssioners having free accesse to. him, he drew that nation into the designe of the second warre; which furiously brake out the next summer, and was one of the highest provocations which, after the second victory, brought him to the scaffold. But I shall respite that, to return to his affaires whom I principally trace. After the parliament went by the general! restor'd to their seates, Collonell Hu tchinson came downe tO- his garrison a t Nott ingham, which, the warre being ended, was reduc'd only to the castle, the workes at the to1vne and the bridges slighted, the compan ies of the governor's regiment, all but two, disbanded , and he thinking, now in a time when there was no opposition, the command not worthy gf himselfe or his brother, gave it over to his kinsman, Capt. Poulton. "\llfith the assistance of his fellow parliament men he procur'd an order from the parliament for five thousand pounds, that had· bene leavied for the Scotch army, but which they, departing with too much hast, had not receiv'd, to be dis tributed among the officers and sonldiers of his regiment that were at this lime d isbanded, i11 part of their arrears, and, that it might go. the farther amongs< is treated much at length by Ludlow, in hi s first volUme, from p. 194 to 204, and he agrees with l\1rs. Hutchinson in most particulars; but it seems extraordi nary that he should attri h.ute a very considerable and active part in this business to Si r .Alien Apsley, and hi s sister should make no menti on of him in it. The candour and benevolence of lretonJ who is so genera lly represented ns a cynick, are equally apparent in both placeshas likewise are the obst i11acy and duplic ity of the king. lflreton is by any supposed to have been too favom:ahly reptesented by_ :Mrs. Hutt<:binson, it will not be thought that he is likewise favoured by '" alker in hi s H ist. of the lndepend . yet page 164 he reports thus.-Ireton said the King had committed crimes enough to depose and imp1·ison ltirn, and crown the Duke of York, then a ch ild , in hi s stead, (not to kill t.he King), and that if any thought their treatment of the King severe) they would .ap... plm1d their clemency to the Duke of York ,
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