402 stand, for by his former usage he saw it was not their good nature; but whither this carriage of his had made them believe innocency was the ground of his confidence, or whither the appearance of his greate spiritt had made them willing to obliege him, or whither even his vertue had strucken them with a guilty dread of him, though a prisoner, certeine it is, that some who had bene his greatest enemies, began to flatter with him, whereupon, in a Bible he carried in his pockett, and markt upon all occasions, he mark'd that place, Prov. xvi. 7, " when a man's wayes please the Lord, he maketh his ene- " mies to be at peace with him." The 19th of October, Mr. Leke, with a party of horse, carried the collonell to the Marquesse of Newcastle's, who treated him very honorably; and then falling into discourse with him, " Collonell," sayth he, " they say you desire to know your accusers, -which is more then I know." And thereupon very freely shew'd him the J)uke of Buckingham's letter, commanding him to imprison the collonel l, and others, upon suspition of a plott, which my lord was so fully satisfied the collonell was innocent of; that he dismist him 'vithout a guard to his' owne house, only engaging him to stay there one weeke, till he gave account to the counsel!, upon which he was confident of his liberty.' The collonell thus dismist, came home, b Here shines oulthe genuine spirit of a noble Briton! This was the same man, who commanding a host, against whi.ch the forces Col. Hutchinson had to defend Nottingham Castle wi th) were but as a dwarf before a giant, yet saw his fidelity to be proof against both danger, and the te.mptation of great rewards, and had generosity enough to see and value virtue in an adversary; he well knew that such a person as the co11onel, was safer in the keeping of his own honour thnn all the guards or prisons of his enemies. Who can fail to regret th::tt such a man should have been s_o long t.h.e dupe of his loyalty to the Stuarts, and above all that he should have to receive mandates from the infamous sycoplumts of Charles the Second! If a man were inevitably to be persecuted, it made much for his honour, and somewhat for hi s satisfaction, to have two men of such opposit e characters as Newcastl e and Buckingham, the one for his protector, the other for his persec ntor.
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