390 the house, through divers abominable untruths which they had forg'd and possesst the members withal!. The collonell bimselfe so!Jicited his owne defence, and had all the iuiustice and fowle play , imaginable att the committee appoynted to examine it, and it was so desperate that all his friends perwaded him to compound it; but he would not, though his enemies offer'cl it, but sayd, he would either be clear'd by a iust, or ruin'd by an uniust sentence, and, persuing it with his usual allacrity and vigor in all things, he at last remoov'cl that prepossession that some of . the gentlemen had against him, and clearing himselfe to some that were most violent, it pleas'd God to tnrne the hearts of the house at last to doe him iustice, and to throw out the bill for evermore, which was a greate mercy to him and his f'amely, for it was to have throwne him out of possession of all the estates he bad, and to have put them into his enemies' bands till they had satisfied themselves.; but the de7 fending himselte was very chargeable to him, and not only so, but this rumor of trouble upon his estate, and the braggs of his enemies, and the clowd he lay under, hinder'cl him both from letting and selling, and improoving, his estate, so that it very much augmented his debt. Befnre this time, in December 1660, Captaine Cooper sent one Broughton, a lieftenant, and Andrews a cornett, with a company of soulcliers, who plunder'd his house at Owthorpe, while he was absent, of all the weapons they found in it, to his very wearing swords, and his owne armor for himselfe, although at that time there was no prohibition of any person whatsoever tn have or weare arms. The collonell was not then at home, and the arms were layd up in a closet within his chamber, where they search'd, and all the house over, to see if they could have found plate or aniething else, but when they could not, they carried these _away, which one of his servants, whom he had dismiss'd with a good reward, betrey'd to them. His eldest sonne went to the Marquesse of Newcastle, lord
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