286 They, with a gteate testimoniall, preferred a Scotchman to him, whom the collonell brought downe: but having occasions to be with the committee at Nottingham, to take order fo1 the security of the county in these dangerous times; while he was out the man made strange prayers in the famely, which were coucht in darke expressions; but Mrs. 1-Iutchinson understanding them to be intended for the prosperous successe of those who were risen against the parliament, and of his nation, that were coming to invade ours, told her husband at his returne, that she could not beare with n.or ioync in his prayers. The next clay, being the Lord's Day, the collonell heard his sermon, which was so spiritlesse and so lamentable, that he. was very much vext the ministers should have put such a man to him; withall he publickly made the same ·prayers he utter'cl in the famely for the successe of the Scotts; whereupon, after dinner, the collonell tooke him aside, and told hiin that he had clone very sinfully to undertake an office to which he was so ill guiftecl, and desir'd i;im to depart in peace againe the next day, and to forbeare any further employment in his house. The man at first was very high, and told the collonell he was there by authority of parliament, and would not depart; ·the collonell then dealt high with him, and told him he· would declare to .them the expressions of his prayers, and so confounded the man, that he besought him to have pitie, and confest that he was fled from his owne country for having bene of IVIontrosse's party, and that covetousnesse, against his consr.ience, had drawne him to dissemble himselfe to be of the parliament's principle, but that God had iudg' d him for his hipocrisie, and withdrawne his spiritt from· him, since he practis'cl it; and submitted himselfe to goe quietly and silently ~tway, begging it as a favour of the collonell, that he would permitt him so to doe. He did it with such a counterfeit sorrow and conviction, 'that the to give themselves up to the guidance of self-created tcnchers,' pretending inspiration, -i.e . impostors.
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