came back through the country and saw the ca~tle pull'd dciwne, he was heartily vext at it, and told Coll. H utchinson, that if he had bene there, when it was voted, he shoulll not have suffer'd it. The collonellreplied, that be had procur'd it to be done, and believ'd it to be his duty to ease the people of charge, when there was no more need of it. When Cromwell came to London, there wanted not some little creatures of his, in the house, who had taken notice of all that had bene say'd of him when he let the king slip by ; how some stuck not in their feare and rage to call him traytor, and to threaten his head. These repo rts added spurres to his ambition, but that, his sonne-in-law, Ireton, deputy of Ireland, would not be wrought to serve him, but hearing of his machinations, determin'd to come over to England to endeavour to divert him from such destructive course~ . ' Bu t God cult him short by death, and whether his body, had deprived them of such superior officers as would have preserved them from deception, and have kep t them fa ithful to their country. T he present and similar occurrences furnished h im with the means so to do, which he employed niost assiduously. Ludlow, vol. iii. p.. 21. "And thus the troops of the parliament, who were not raised " out of the meanest of the people and without distinction, as other armies had been; a but consisted of such as had engaged themselves from a spir it of liberty in. the deH fence of the ir rights and 1 eligion, were corrupted by him, kept as a stand ing force u against the people, taught to forget their first engagements, and rendered as mercetr nary as ot her troops are accustomed to be." From about th is period then we may date the chauge of sentiment of the army in general, and of course the change of opinion respecting them, in the minds of Coli. Hutchinson and others who before had sided with them. g If this intent ion of I reton is mentioned by any other person, it has escaped the search of the editor, it may have been known r~i th, ca·tainty by M r. 1-Iutch insOn alone: but somethi ng of the kind seems to have been in the contemplation of VVhitelock when he regrets his dea1h, on account ' of the influence he : had over the mind of Cromwell, - which has been remarked in a former note; as likewise the probability that the prolongation of his life mi ght have made a grea t difference in the conduct of Cromwell. What is said of his funeral well agrees with what is said by Ludlow, who adds, that
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