356 country some time before Lambert's revolt, Mr. Robcrt Pierrepont, the sonne of the late Coli. Francis Pierrepont, sent friends to entreate the collonell to receive him into his protection. Upon the entreaty of his uncles he tookc him into his owne house, and entertain'd him civilly there, whilst he writt to the speaker, urging his youth, his surrender of himselfe, and all he could in favour of him, desiring to know how they would please to dispose of him. Before the letters were answer'd Lambert had broken the parliament, and the collonell told him he was free againe to doe what he pleas'd; but the young gentleman begg'd of the collonell that he might continue under his sanctuary till these things came to some issue. This the collonell very freely admitted, and entertain'd him till the second returne of the parliament, not without much trouble to his house, of him and his servants, so contrary to the sobriety and holinesse the collonell delighted in, yelt fon his father's and his uncle's sakes he endur'd it about six months. Some of Lambert's officers, while he march'd neere Nottinghamshire, hoving formerly serv'd under the collonell 's command, came to his house at Owthorpe and told him of the petition that ~vas sett on foote in Lambert's brigade, and consulted whether they should signe it or no. The collonell advis'd them by no means to doe it, yett notwithstandi.ng they did, which made the collonell exceeding by Whitelock, p. 685. He there says that he took his share iu it reluctantly, and that all three were censured for it by the parliament at their return . Ludlow was accused of treason; Vane made an ingenious excuse, but was banished to one of his country seats. Col. Hutchinson evidently divided from Sir H. Vane on this occasion, and, as Ludlow says, urged on the censure against him, which he considers as inconsistent with Col. Hutchinson's judgment passed on the king, and as a proof of his treachery and underhand agreement with Monk. But no conclusion can be more unwarranted than this: it was Col. Hutchinson's anxiety to keep the king out, or at least to prevent his coming in with a high hand and without limitation, that caused him so strenuously to oppose these rash steps; which made all wish for the king's return, to deliver them from greater evils.
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