358 upon another businesse. :For Owthorpe, Kinolton, and llicklin , had a contest about a cripple that was sent fi·om one to the other, but at last, out of some respect they had for the collonell, the chiefe men of the severall townes were come to him , to make sonH< accommodation, till the law should be againe in force. When the colloncll heard the souldiers were come, he left them shut up in his greate hall, who by accident t hus appear ing, putt the souldiers into a dreadful! fright . ' Vhen the collonell saw how _p ale they look'd, he encourag'd them to take heart, and calmly a dmonish t them of their insolence, and they being chang'd and very humble through their feare, he call 'd for wine for them, and sent them away . To the most insolent of them he sayd, " These carriages would bring back the Stewarts ." The man, lay- ·ing his haud upon his sword, sayd, " Never while he wore that." 1\mong other things they sayd to the collonell, when he demanded by what authority they came, they shew'd their swords, and sayd, "That was their authority ." 1\fter they were dismist the collonell, not willing to appeare because he was sherifte of the county , and had many of their papers sent him to publish, con- . ceal'd himselfe in his house; and caus' cl his wile to write a letter to Fleetewoode and complaine of the afti·onts had bene offer'd him, and to tell him that he was thereupon retir'd, till he could dwell safely at home.' To this Fleetewood return'd a civill answer, and ~vithall sent a protection, to forbidd all souldiers from coming to his ,. Probably this c ircumstance of Col. Hutchinson concealing himself in hi s own lwme came at that time to be known at Nottingham, and gave rise to a trad ition which is to be found in Throsby,s edition of Thoroton, that he concealed hiniself in this manner after the restoration, but wa.s taken in his return from church; both of which were untrue, as probt\bly were some other tales, resembling the 1egends of romance, which the Editor heard. of him at Owthorpe. But that there was an apartment so adapted for concealment, security, and convenience, ~s that he might have made a long residence in it without being discovered, the Editor had ocular demonstration .
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