298 Lord .Lexington's, that the collonell would pitch upon that for the payment of his arrears, that so they might fall into the hands of a neighbour, who would use them civilly rather then of a stranger. After that the collonell was thus invited by the gentlemen them- -selves, to pitch upon this mony, he wav'd all the rest, and only enter'd as his discoverie, that mony which these townsmen of Newark had lent, and upon full search and hearing att the committee, the mony was found to be forfeited mony, and the debtors were order'd to pay it into the committee, and Coli. Hutchinson had alsoe an order to receive his arreare from that committee of Haberdasher's Hall. Hereupon Sr. Thomas Williamson and Lord Lexington, who being the men of the best estates, were pri ncipally lookt upon for the debt, applied themselves to Coli. Hutchinson, begging as a favour that he would undertake the management of the order of sequestration, given out upon their estates, and would alsoe obliege them, by bringing in severall other gentlemen, that were bound to bearc proportionable shares. The collonell, to gratify them, gott the order of sequestration, and brought them to an accommodation, wherein every man, according to his ability, agreed upon an equall proportion; and the gentlemen, especially Mr. Sutton, acknowledg'd a very greate obligation to the collonell, who had brought it to so equall a composition among them; and then, upon their owne desires, the order of sequestration was Jay'd upon their estates, but managed by one of their ownc bayliffes, only to free them from inconveniences, that otherwise would have come upon them. Some of them made use of it to get in arrears of rent, which they knew not how elce any way to have gotten, and for which a tt that time they pretended the greatest sence of gratitude and obligation imaginable. The collonell alsoe procur'd them dayes of paymen t, so that whereas it should have been pay'd this Michaelmasse 1648, it was not pay'd till a yeare after, and for these and many other favours in this occasion, was then courted as their
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