337 ing their workes in payntings, scnlptnres, gravings, and all otl1er such curiosities, insomuch that he· became a greate virtuoso and patrone of ingenuity. Being loath that the land should be disfurnisht of all the rarities that were in it, whereof many were sett to sale in the king's and divers noblemen's collections, he lay'd out about two thousand pounds in the choycest pieces of painting, most of which were bought out of the king's goods, which were given to his servants to pay their wages: to them the collonell gave ready money, and bought so good pennieworths, that they were vallued much more worth then they cost.' These he brought down into· the country, intending a very neat cabinett for them; and these, with the surveying of his buildings, and emprooving by enclosure the place he liv'd in, employ'd him att home, and, for a little time, hawkes abroad; but when a very sober fellow, that never was guilty of the usual! vices of that generation of men, rage and swearing-, died, he gave over his hawkes, and pleas'cl himselte with musick, and againe fell to the practice of his violl, on which he play'd excellently well, and entertaining .tutors for the diversion and education of his children in all sorts of musick, he pleas'd himselfe in these innocent recreations during Oliver's mutable reigne. As he had greate delight, so he had greate iudgment, in musick, and ad-· vanc'd his children's practise more then their tutors: he alsoe was a greate supervisor of their learning, and indeed himselfe a tutor to them all, besides all those tutors which he liberally entertain'd in his house for them. He spared not any cost for the education of both his sons and daughters in languages, sciences, musick, dancing, ; That the conduct of Col. Hutchinson differed from that of most other men in power at that time, and brought a seasonable relief to the king's servants and creditors, appears from two passages in the History of Independency, p. 146 and 184. u The H king's servants and creditors starve for want of their own, while the members appro- (( priate his furniture to their own use in stead of selling it to pay debts." "The king'• " servants and creditors may gape long enough before they sell the king's goods to H pay debts."
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