310 Owen may stand for a pillar of ingratitude. This man was wholly unknowne to him, and with Duke Hamilton, the Earle of Holland, the Lord Capell, and the Lord Goring, condemn'd to death by a second high court of iustice. Of this though the collonel was nominated a commissioner, he would not sitt, his unbloody nature desiring to spare the rest of the delinquents, after the highest had suffer'd, and not delighting in the death of men, when they could live without cruelty to better men. The parliament alsoe was willing to shew mercy to some of these, and to execute others for example; whereupon the whole house was diversely engag'd, some for one and some for another of these lords, and striving to cast away those they were not concern'd in, that they might save their friends. While there was such mighty labour and endeavour for these lords, Coli. I-Iutchinson observ'd that no man spoke for this poore knight, and sitting next to Coli. Ireton, he express'd himselfe to him and told him, that it pitticd him much to see that, while all were labouring to save the lords, a gentleman, that stood in the same condemnation, should not find one friend to aske his life ; " and so," sayd he, " am I moov'd with compassion that, if you will " second me, I am resolv'd to speake for him, who, I perceive, is a " stranger and friendlesse." Ireton promis'd to second him, and accordingly enquiring further of the man's condition, whether he had not a petition in any member's hand, he found that his keepers had brought one to the clearke of the house, but the man had not found any one that would interest themselves for him, thinking the lords' lives of so much more concernment then this gentleman's. This the more stirr'd up the collonell's generous pitty, and he took the petition, dcliver'd it, spoke for him so nobly, and was so effectually seconded by Ireton, that they carried his pardon clear. Yet although or:ie who knew the whole circumstance of the businesse, how Mr. Hutchinson, moov'd by meere compassion and generosity, had procur'd his life, told h1m, who admir'd his owne
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