351 cowardize of the enemie obtein'd a very cheape victory, and returned. In Nottinghamshire Coli. White rose, only to shew his apos tacy, and runne away. The Lord Biron alsoe lost himselfe and his companions in the fon·est, being chac'd by a piece of the county troope. And Mr. Robert Pierrepont~ the sonne of the late collonell, wen t out to make up the route, and runne away, and cast away some good anus into the bushes, to make his flight more easie. During the late protector's times Col. Hutchinson, who thought them greater usurpers on the people's liberties then the former kings, believ'cl himselfe wholly clisengag'cl from all ties, but those which God and nature, or rather God by nature oblieges every man of honor and honesty in to his country, which is to defend or relieve it fi·om invading tirants, as farre as he may by a lawfull call and meanes, and to suffer patiently that yoke which God submits him to, till the Lord shall take it of ; and upon these principles, he seing tha t authority, to which he was in duty bound, so seemingly taken quite awa y, thought he was free to fall in or oppose all things, as prudence should guide him, upon gencrall rul es of conscience. These would not permitt him any way to assist any tirant_or invader of the people's rights, nor to rise up against them without a manifest call from God; therefore he staid at home, and busied himselfe in his owne domestick employments, and having a very liberall heart, had a house open to all worthy persons of all parties. Among these t he Lord Biron, who thought that no gentleman ought to be unp rovided of armes, in such an uncerteine time, had provided himselfe a trunck of pistolls, which were brought downe from London: but some suspition of it, being enter'd in the protector's officers, he cl urst not fetch the trunke from the carrier's himselte, but entreated the collonell to send for them to his house, and secure them there. This the collonell did , but afterward when my Lord Biron had enter' cl into conspiracy with the enemies of the parliament, ·he knew that Coli. Hutchinson was not to be attempted against them, and was in greate care how to gett his annes out" of the collonell's house. s n
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