385 When Sr. A. Apsley came to the chancellor be was in a greata rage and passion, and fell upon him with much vehemence. " 0 " Nail," sayd he," what have you done ? you have sav'd a man that " would be ready, if he had opertunity, to mischiefe us as much " as ever he did." Sr. Allen was forc'd to stop his mouth, and tell him, that he believ'd his brother a !esse dangerous person then those he had brought into the king's councell, meaning Maynard and Glynne;' but the truth is, from that time, all kindnesse that any one expresst to the collonell was ill resented, and the Countesse of Rochester was alsoe se,·erely rebuk'd for having appear'd so kind lo the collonell. V\' hen the parliament sate againe the collonell sent up his wife to sollicite his businesse in the house, that the Lord Lexlngton's bill might not passe the lower house. At her first coming to towne a parliament man, a creature of Worcester-house, being in his coach, she out of her's call'cl to him, who was.her kinsman, and desir'd his. vigilancy to prevent her iniury. " I could wish," sayd he, " it had " bene finisht last time, for your husband hath lately so ill behav'd " himselfe that it will passe against him." She answer'd, " I pray " let my friends but doe .their endeavours for me, and then let it " be as God will." He, smiling att her replied, "It .is not now as •• God will,' but as rvee will." Howe,·er she, notwithstanding many other cliscouragements, waited upon the businesse every clay, when her adversaries as dilligently sollicited against her. One day a friend came out of the house and told her that they were that day so engag'd that she might go home and rest secure nothing would be done, and that day most of her friends were away, and her opP Maynard and Glynne had chimed in not only wi~h the parliament but with Cromwe11, under whom both held offices. The chance11or will hereafter find them dangerous inmates-~n pushing the affair of his accusation and exile. q Tbjs well marks the change of stile that had_ take1~ place.
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