279 them, himselfe had none of it.' The garrison at N,ottingham being reduc'd, Coli. Hutchinson remoov'd his famely back to his owne house at Owthorpe, but found that, havibg stood uninhabited, , and bene rob'd of every thing which the neighbouring garrisons of Shelford and Wiverton could carrie from it, it was so ruinated that it could not be repair'd, to make a conveni~nt habitation, without as much charge as would almost build another. By reason of the debt his publick employment lmcl runne him into, not being able to doe this at present while all his arrears were unpay'd, he made a bad shift with it for that yeare. At this time his distemper of rhenme was very sore upon him, and he so aflicted with paynes in his head, which fell down alsoc with violent torture upon all his ioynts, that he was not able to goe for divers weekes out of his chamber; and here wee had a notable example of the victorious. power of his soule over his body. One day, as he was in the saddest torture of his disease, ccrteine horse came, somewhat insolently and iniuriously, -exacting quarters or monies in the towne, whom he ·sent for, and telling them he would not suffer such wrong to be clone to his tenants, they seeing him in so,wcake a condition, would not be perswaded to forbearc violent and uniust actions, but told him his government was expir'd, and they no more nndee his command; with .which, and some other sawcy language, being. peovok'd to be heartily angrie, he felt not tha~ he was sick, but started· out of his chaire and beatc them out of the house and towne, and return'd againe laughing_att the wretched fellows and att himselfe, . ~vond'ring what was become of his payne, and thinking how strangely his feebleness was cured in , a moment: but while he and those about him were in this amazement, it was not halfe an hower before, as his spirits cool'd, that heate and ngonr they had h Nota bene. 2 Q
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