316 then as unmoovable by his friends as pertinacious in obeying his wife; whereby he then died to all his former glory, and became the monument of his owne name, which every day wore out. · ·when l1is commission was given up, Cromwell was made general], and new commissions taken out by all the officers fro"m him. He finding that Coli. Hutchinson's commission for the island was not taken out, and that he addrest not to him, made hast to prevent the islanders, and gave a commission for the government to one of his owne creatures. At this time the Lady Dormer being dead, had left to her grandchild, a papist, the Lady Anne Somersctt, daughter to the Mnrquesse of ·worcester, a mannour in Leicestershire, wl1ich the lady, being more desireous of a portion in mony, had a greatc mind to sell, and came and offer'd it to Coli. I-Iutchinson, with whom she had some alliance; but he told her he was not in a purchasing condition, whereupon she earnestly beg'd him, that if he would not buy it himselfe, he would procure of the parliament, that she might have leave to sell it. This he moov'd and was repuls'd, whereupon both the lady, and one that was her priest, who negotiated for her, and other friends, most earnestly sollicited Collonell Hutchinson to buy it; who urging that he had not mony for such a purchase, they offer'd him time of payment, till he could sell his owne land, and ass ur'd him it should be such a pcnnieworth, as he should not repent the selling his owne land to buy it. He urg'd to them the trouble and difficulty it would be to obteine it, and that it might so fall that he must lay a weight upon it, more then the thing would be worth to him, _he never having ye t made any request to the house, and having reason to expect recompences for the losse of his ~s tate, as well as others. But my lady still importun'd him, arise; and if the pre!'ibyterians have nothing else to answer for, the perverting the judgment of thi s excellent man was a fault never to be forg iven; if the ruin of their own cause could expiate it, they were. not long before they made that atonement.
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