364 honorable pretences that can be imagin'd; call'd him his dean · ji·iend, and caress\! him with such embraces as none but a tray tor as vile as hirnselfe could have suspected ; yett was he the most intimate of J\llonke's confidents: whereupon some few dayes before the rising of that house, when it began to be too app:. rent which way Monke enclin'd, the collonell, upon the confidence of his friendship, entreated him to tell him what were JVIonke's intentions, that he and others might consider their safety, who were likely to be given up as a publick sacrifi ce. Coopc!· deni ed to the death any intention besides a commonwealth; "but," sayd he, with the greates t semblance of rea llity that can be putt on, " if t he violence of the " people should bring the king upon us, let me be damn'd , body " and soule, if ever I see a !mire ·of any man's head toucht, or a " pennie of any man's estate upon this quarrel!." Th is he back_t w1th so many and so deep protestations of that kinde, as made the collonell, after his treachery was apparent, detest him of all mankind, and think himselfe oblieged, if ever be had opportunity, to procure exempl ary iusti.ce on him, who was so vile a wretch as himselfe to sitt and sen tence some of those that died. And although · this man ioyn'd with those who labour'd the coll onell's particular deliverance, ye tt the collonell, to his dying day, abhorr'd the mention of his namo, and beld him for a more execrable traytor than Monke himselfe. A tt t his time the colloncll, as before, was by many of his friends atlempt~d every way to fall in with the king's interest, and often offer'd both pardon and prefe rment, if he could be wrought off from hi s party, whose danger was now lay'd before him: but they could no way moove him.' A genLleman that had x It was hard upon him, after this, to be accused by Ludlow of treachery and conni vance with the king's friends; but Ludlow was at thi s time engaged in a diirerent party, perhaps envious of him for escap ing with impunity, when himself despaired of doing so, and went into voluntary exile : and besides Sir A. Ashley Cooper may have stipulated for CoL Hutchinson's indemnity g1·atuitousl.g; whil e most people suppose
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