297 position. Having bene so cunning as to put out their mony in other names, they ventur'd to leave out these summes, believing they were putt into such sure hands, that it would never be discover'd. Mr. Sutton, Sr. Thomas Williamson, Sr. John Digby, Sr. Gervas Eyre, the Lord Chaworth, Sr. Thomas Blackwell, Sr. Roger Cowper, Sr. Richard Biron, and others, had given bond for this mony, which Mr. Sutton presenting to the king, as a summe that he had rays'd to signalize his loyalty; the king, to reward him, made him a baron. The whole summe thus taken up for the king's service, was eight or ten thousand pounds; fifteen hundred of it, that was lent by Atkinson, being demanded, would have bene pay'd, but they would not take the principal without the interest. Sr. Thomas Will iamson was openly arrested for it in w·estminster Hall; upon which Mr. Sutton and he, being madded, put in a bill in chancery against Atkinson and others, praying that they might sett forth to what ends and uses this mony was lent to the sayd gentlemen, &c. &c. The parliament had made a law, that all estates of delinquents, conceal'd and uncompounded for, should be forfeited, one halfe to the state, and the other halfe to the discoverer, if he had any arrears due to him :from the parliament, in payment of them. There were clearkes and sollicitors, who in those days made a trade of hunting out such discoveries, and making them knowne to such as had any arrears due to them. Coli. Hutchinson att that time had receiv'd no pay at all. One of the clearkes of that committee, which was appoynted for such discoveries, sent him word that two officers of the armie were upon this chancery bill, endeavouring to make a discovery of certeine conceal'd monies in Nottinghamshire, which being his owne country, he thought might be more proper for him. Coli. Hutchinson, who had never any mind to disadvantage any of the gentlemen of the country, demurr'd upon this information, and did nothing in it, till some came to him, intimating a desire of my
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