389. others of her friends sayd it was but an effect of his wine, the consequence proov'd it but too true. She advertis'd the collonell and perswaded him, beirig alsoe advis'd to the same by other friends; to go out of England, but he would not: he sayd this was the place where God had sett him, and protected him hitherto, and it would be in him an ungrateful! distru~t of God to forsake it.' At this time he would have sold patt of his estate to pay his debts, but the purchasers scrupled, desireing to see his pardon, which he not having, was faine to breake of the treaty; and though all the friends he had labour'd it, the chancellor utterly refus'd it. There was a thousand pounds offer'd to one to procure it, but it was tried scverall times and would not passe, by reason of which he was prevented of the oppcrtunity then to settle his es tate; yet a yeare after a little sollicitor shufled it in among many others, and manag'd it so dexterously that it past all the seales. The collonell's estate being in mortgage with a peevish alderman, who had a designe upon it, to have bought it for little ot nothing, he had a greate trouble with him; for having procur'd him his mony, he would not assigne the mortgage, and the. others would not lend the mony without assignment from him, so that it put the collimell to many inconveniences and greate expence. This parliament being risen, another was call'd by the king's writt, wherein the act of oblivion was againe confirm'd, not without some canvassing and opposition; and here againe another act about that mony of the Lord Lexington's was prepar'd and twice read in 1 This is a pregnant instance of Col. Hutchinson's strong belief in the decrees of providence, and at the same time of }lis sincere conformity to them: it is much to be regretted that he adhered so minutely and literally to it, instead of making use of his own and his friends discretion. He might well have lived to see the happy Revolution, an~ have returned and benefited his native cot~~ry again by his spirit, wi sdom) and expenence. ·
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