407 favour of God thereby, and nothing at all daunted at the mallice of his prosecutors, but went as cheerefully into captivity as another would have come out of it. They were forc'd to stay a day at Owthorpe, for the mending of the coach and comming in of the souldiers, wl~ere the collonell had the opertunity to take leave of his poore labourers, who wept all bitterly when he pay'd them of, bnt he comforted them and smil'd, and without any regrett went away from his bitterly weeping children, and servants, and tenants, his wife and his eldest sonne and daughter going with him, upon Saturday the 31st of October. Golding, the night before he went, had sent him a pot of marmalade to eat in the coach, and a letter to desire all grutches might be forgotten, and high flattering stuffe, by his man that was to be one of the guard, which he say'd he had chosen ont the best he had, and his best horse, and if he did not pay him all respect he would turne him away; and as the colloncll came by his doore, came out with wine, and would faine have brought him into the house to eate oysters, but the collonell only drank with him, an~ bid him friendly farewell, and went on, not guarded as a prisoner, but waited on by his neighbours. Mrs. Hutchinson was exceedingly sad, but he encouraged and kindly chid her out of it, and told her it would blemish his innocence for her to appeare aflicted, and told her if she had but patience to waite the event, she would see it all for the best, and bade her be thankfull for the mercy that she was permitted this comfort to accompany him in the journey, and with divers ·ex- · cellent exhortations chear'd her who was not wholly abandoh'd to ~orrow, while he was with her, who, to divert her, made himselfe sport with his guards, and deceiv'd the way, till upon the 3d of November he was brought to the Crown, in IIolborne. From thence, the next day, he was ca1Tied by :Mr. Leke to the Tower, and committed there close pri soner, by warrant, signed by Secretary Bennett the 20th of October, whereby he stood <:ommitled for treasonable 3 I
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