320 biters to ioyne with them), the collonell put the mony out of his owne hands, to preserve it for my lady. All that time both she and her brother, and other friends, made all the acknowledgments of obligation that was possible. Not to confound stories, I finish the memoriall of this here. After the parliament was broken up by Cromwell, and after that my lady, seeing her proiect of marrying with my Lord Dorchester would not take, had embrac'd an offer of :Mr. Henry Howard, second sonne to the Earle of Arundell, and when, in the protector's time, the papists wanted not patrons, she began to repent the selling of her land, which before she thought such a blessing, and told her husband false stories, as he alledg'd, though his futnre carriage made it iustly suspitious, he was as un~vorthy as she.' The collonell, presently after he had that land, had very much improov'd it, to a fourth part more .then it was att when he bought it, and they, envying his good bargaine, desired to have it againe out of his hands, nor dealt fairely and directly in the thing, but em., ployed a cunning person, Maior Wildman, who was then a greate manager of papists' interests, to get the land againe, which he was to have four hundred pounds for, if he could do it. Wbereupon he presently gott mony and came to the gentleman who had a mortgage upon it, for three thousand pounds taken up to pay my lady, and tender' cl it. But Mr. Ash, a greate friend of the (·ullonell's, was so faithfull that he would not accept it, and then Wildman began a chancery suit, thinking that the cullonell, being out of favour with . the present powers, would be necessitated to take any composition. 'When he had put the collonell to a greate deale' of vaine charge, ·and found he could doe n.o good, at last they desir'd to make up dIn the third vol. ofClarendon's State Papers, in a letter of his, dated Aug. 165.5, he says, " Crornwell hypocritically pretends kindness to the Catholicks , but tl1e Le- -vellers have real candour towards them1 and are implacable enemies to Cromwell.
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