n1isedes of any poore woemen or children, who had bene unfortu• nately, though deservedly, ruin'd in the civil! warre; and without any interest of his owne in the persons, whenever·anyruin'd famely came to seeke .reliefe, ·where he was in power, he was as zealous in assisting all such, as farre as it might be done with the safety of the commonwealth, as if they had bene his brothers. As it was a inisery to he bewail'd in thnse dayes, that many of the parliament party, exercis'd cruelty, iniustice, and oppression to the!r conquer'd enemies, wherever he discover'd \t he violently oppos'd it, and defended even those enemies that were by might oppress'd and de~ frauded of the mercies of the parliament, Upon this account he had contests with some good men, who were weake in these things, some through too factious a zeal!, and others blinded with their owne or their friends interests. · Among these CoiL Hacker's father, having married my Lady Biron's mother, was made a trustee for the estate of her sonne, which she had by Strelley her first husband. He had about 1800l. of the estate of young Strelley in his hands, which, he dying, his eldest sonne and heire Coli. Francis Hacker, was liable and iustly ought to pay. Young Strelley died in France, and left his estate to his halfe brother, the sonne of Sr. Richard Biron, who all the time of the first warre, was at schoole in Coli. Hutchinson's garrison at Nottingham, and after was sent into France. Being there, an infant, when this estate fell to him, he return'd and chose CoiL Hutchinson for ~is guardian, who overcame Co!J. Hacker in the right of his pupill, and recover'd that mony out of his hands, which he would 110t have pay'd, if the infant had not found a fJ·iend that was heartily zealous to obtaine his iust right. Sr. Arthur Haslerig was a greate patrone of Coli. Hacker's, and labour'd to beare him out against iustice and the infant's right in this thing; and when the collonell had overcome him, they were both ·displeas'd; for Hac]>er, on the other side, was such a creature of
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