295 his art to perswade the captaines to submitt to it; and to excuse himselfe from having any hand in it; but they perceiv'd his dissimulation, and the troopes were so displeas'd with it, that they thought to have flung downe their arms; but their captaines pcrswaded them to rest contented 'till the present expedition were over. But they had not only this cheate and disappoyntment by Cromwell, but all the Nottingham captaines were pass'd over, and a less deserving man made maior of the regiment. The new collonell and maior made it their busiriesse to discountenance and affront all that had shew'd any desire of Coli. Hutchinson, and to wearie them out, that they might fill up their ro.omes with Derbieshire men; but assoone as they gott to London, all that could otherwise dispose of themselves, went voluntarily of; and the rest that were forc'd to abide, hated their commanders, and liv'd discontentedly nnder them. The reasons that indnc'd Cromwell to this, were two: first, he found that Coli. Hutchinson understood him, and was too generous either to feare or flatter him; and he carried, though under a false face of friendship, a deepe resentment of the collonell's plaine dealing with him at Nottingham. He had besides a designe, by insinuating himselfe into Coil. Saunders, to flatter him into the sale of a towne of his call'd Ireton, which Cromwell earnestly desired to buy for Maior General Ireton, who had married his daughter, and when at last he could not obteine it, in process of time, he tooke the regiment away from him againe. • Col!. Hutchinson was not at all displeas'd that the regiment was not given to him, but highly resented it that the men were ill us' cl for their affections to him; and was sorrie that this particular carriage of Cromwell's gave him such a proofe of other things suspected of him, so destructive to the whole cause and party, as it afterwards fell out. m This gentleman is mentioned. in Granger's Biography; and there is a print of him in the hands of some curious collectors, peculiarly of John To\\,. nely, Esq. He is said to be of Ireton, in Derbyshire; but lrcton is believed to be in the Vale of Bel,•oir. 2 s
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