317 promising a pennieworth in it, that shonld countervaile the difficulty and the trouble; whereupon, at the last, he contracted with her, upon bqth her and her brother's desire, the Lord Herbert, who was her next heire, and was then at full age, and gave a release of all claime to it, under his hand and s~eale; and my lady, being betweene 19 and 20 yeares old, then pass'd a fine, and covenanted att her comming to full age to pass another, and absolutely bargained and sold the land to Col!. Hutchinson, who secured the price of it to the Marquesse of Dorchester, whom the lady and her friends had a greate hope and desire to compasse for a husband, and had thoughts, that when the portion was secur'd in his hands, it would be easily effected. This they afterwards entrusted to Coli. Hutchinson, and desired his assistance to propound the businesse to my lord, as from himselfe, out of mutual! wellwishes to both parties; but my lord would not hearken to it, though the collonell, willing to do her a kindnesse, endeavour'd to perswade him, as much as· was fitting. In the mean time the collonell could not, by all the friends and interest he had in the house, procure a composition and leave for my lady to sell her land, because they say'd it would be a precedent to other papists, and some moov'd, that what service he had done, and what he had lost, might be some other way consider'd, rather then this any way suffer'd. But he vigorously persuing it, and laying all the weight of all his meritts and sufferings upon it, all that he could obteine at last was, to be himselfe admitted, in his ow'ne name, for taking of of the sequestration, after he had bought it, which he did ; and they tooke two thousand pounds of him for his composition. By the interest of Sr. Henry Vane and several! others of his friends, powerful! in the house, this too was with much difficulty wrought out, though violently oppos'd by several! others. Of these Maior-generall Harrison was one, and he, when he saw that he could pot prevaile, but that in favour particularly to ·Col!. Hutchinson, it was carried out by his friends; after
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