380 against it, and the Marquesse Dorchester; having the chayre, was wonderfull civill. to the collonell. The adverse councell having bene men that practis'd under the parliament, thought they could no way ingratiate themselves so well as by making invectives against those they formerly claw'd with, and when quite besides their matter, they fell into raylings against the iniustice of the former times and scandalls of the collonell, the marquesse check'd them severely, and bade thefi'1 mind their cause: but Mr. Finch, one of the collonell's councell, after a lawyer had made a long rayling speech, which held them a tedious while, he replying; " My lord," sayd he, " this " gentleman hath taken up a greate deale of time to tell your lord- " ship how uniust that parliament was, how their committees per- " vetted iudgment and right, which he setts forlh with all his power " of language to make them odious, and in conclusion would per- " suade your lordship therefore to doe the same things." After the hearing at the committee, a report was made so favourable for the collonell that the bill was cast aside, and the house being then ready to adiourne, most of the cullonell's friends went out of towne, which opertunit.y Lexington taking notice of, the very last day in a huddle gott the bill past the lords' house.' ' i The same whom, when Viscount Newark, Col.l:Jutchinson rescued from the violence of the countrymen at Nottingham; to whom afterwards the colonel made. at the request of her friends, the offer· of the hand and fortune of Lady An ne Somerset, and who so handsomely now evinces his candour and gratitude. His character is well contrasted with that of Lord Lexington, who in the first place obtai ned a peerage for the sacrifice of this very money ; next refused payment of it to the Newarkers, of whom he had borrowed it; then, t1pon being compelled to pay it, procured easy terms by the colonel's interference; and now attempts to plundel' h is benef~H:; tor of the whole! k The practice of parli ament at that time must have differed from what it now is, for such a bill to originate in the house of lords: we shnll presemly sec it miscarry in the commons.
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