409 " and two little children." 12th. "Whither his sonnes had not done " aniething to iniure him?" He replied, " Never that he knew of, " and he was confident they had not." 13th. " Where he went to "church to heare devine service, common prayer?" l-Ie sayd, "No " where, for he never stirr'd out of his owne house." 14th. " Whi- " ther he heard it not read there?" He answer'd, "To speake inge- " nuously, No." 15th. " How he then did for his soule's comfort?" .He replied, " Sr. I hope you leave me that to account betweene " God and my owne soule." Then Bennett told him his answers to these had cut him of of many questions he should have asked, and he might returne. So he was carried back to the Tower with .only two of the warders which brought him thither.' Not long after one ·waters was brought prisoner out of York· shire, a fellow of a timorous spiritt, who being taken, was in so greate a feare, that he accus'd many, guifty and not ·guilty, to save himselfe; caus'd his owne wife to be put in prison, and hang' cl the dearest friend he had in the world, and brought' his wives brothel' d What will the reader think of this exami nation when he is reminded, or, if he knew it not before_, is informed, that this gentleman who is so anxious for the welfare of Col. Hutchinson's soul, and so earnest for his frequenting the church, was himself a concealed papist, and privy to the king's being so too! It is necessary to be here ob4 served, that upon the publication of the act of un iformity a very great number of the parochial clergy quitted their benefices, and were replaced by others; it is hi ghly probable th is would be the ca9e at Owthorpe, and it was a very natural consequence of it that Col. H utchinson should absent himself from hi s church, where, although he had heretofore taken much pain s to get a good minister established and his salary augmented, he had now to expect, instead of sp ir itual comfort, such pulpit railings as he had been assailed with at Nottingham. Aecordingly he performed the worship of God in hi s own fam ily, much as a protestant father of,a family would have done in a catholic country. And the history informs us he was so occupied when the soldiers came to seize him: but it was prudent to say nothing of this to the sccretarg confessor! Mr. Nevil , whom he speaks of, made a considerable figUre in the latter times of the long parliam.ent, as a staunch republican, a man of strict integrity, and a steadyopposer of all the usurpation•.
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