321 the businesse, mid the lady and Mr. Howard past a new fine to confirme the title, and the collonell was deliver'd from further trouble with them, till after the change and the returne of the king. Then, when the parliament men began to come into question for their lives, my Lord of Ponland and Mr. Howard came to Mrs. Hutchinson's lodgings three or foure times, while she was out solliciting for her husband, and my lord left,.her a message, that he must needs speake with her, upon a businesse of much concernment; whereupon she sought out my lord; knowing that he had profest much kindnesse and obligation to her husband, and thinking he might have some designe -now to acknowledge it by some real! assistance. But ·when she came to him, he told her, her husband was in danger of his life, , and that if he would rcsigne back Loseby to Mr. Howard, he would helpe him to a good summe of mony to fiie, and Mr. I-Ioward would stand to the hazard of bnying it; but she being vext that my lord should interrupt her with this frivolous proposition, told rhy lord she would hazard it with the rest of her estate, rather then make up such desperate bargaines. When Mr. Howard saw this would not doe, he prepar'd a petition to get it excepted out of the act of oblivion, pretending that ·his wife being under age, the collonell had by power and frawd wrested her out of her estate. But when he shew'd this petition to his friends, they being inform'd of the falsenesse of the allegations, would none of them undertake either to deliver or back it. Only one Sr. Richard Onslow was a violent man, rayling against the collonell concerning this, hut he not long. after died by a blast of lightning. Others of his friends, when they understood that he himselfc had ioyn'd in the confirmation of the fine, after the col lonell was rctir'd1 in the protector's reigne, bade him for shame no more make mention of his lady's being fool'd or frighten'd to an act which he had voluntarily done. lVJany told the collonell how uns.afe it was to displease a person who had so ma~;~y powerful!, allies that might mischide him, but the collonell would
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