415 went therefore to Bennett and told him that, by reason of some engagements for mony her husband had upon his estate, this very close imprisonment had bene infinitely preiudiciall to him, both his tenants and his creditors taking advantages of his incapacitie, by banishr~ent. He very justly, in the same writing, attributes a good deal of the hatred and bitterness which prevaile.d against him to his many refusals of setting the seal to pardons and other indulgences. VVhen among the speake rs against hi:n we see the names of Maynard, St. John, Hampden, and Prynne,* we may well conclade that these men, thougli they had a little temporized, were glad to assist in the downfal of the man who had persecuted the more zealous of their former associates, and pleased to see him sue for that clemency whi ch his own former severity gave llim good reason to despair of. - Bennet was several years after impeached together with Buckingham, the same who first entrapped and caused Col. Hutchinson to be seized, and whose infamous letter the l'vlarquis of Newcastle shewed the colonel. On this occasion he employed hi s usual treachery, and criminated the earl, who was fai~1 to save himself from the indignation of the parliament by a total change of conduct; by practising the hypocrisy he had recommended to Col. H utchinson of frequenting the comffiunion of a church he was averse to, and persecuting· the papists, whom he had protected, and wished to protect. On account of his conduct a st rict enquiry was made by the commons concerning the commitment of persons by order of counci l, and amendments: were made in the Habeas Corpus act, which, if they had existed in the colonel's time, , would have preserved him from his long and unjust imprisonment.- Buckinghain, after bringing the family of Fairfax to extinction by marrying and slighting his daughter, heightening and exposing his master's vices, ancJ passing his whole life in playing, by countless alternations, the parts of traitor and sycophant, died in disgrace and beggary, and, to sum all up in that which to him would be the greatest suffering, his memory rem~in s hung up tO ridi cule in the chains of never~dying satire l;>y Pope, in some of the best lines he has written . . To those who believe in the peculiar interposition .of God in human affairs, as our author did, it must be very strik ing, and to her, if she l ived to witness it, highly i; rati(ying~ to observe this course of events. Mr. Hutch inson's three great enemies, Buckingham, Clarendon, and Arlington, ruin each other, and two ~f them, C!arendon and Arlington, w ith~ut the design of doing any thing so good, ~laid the foundations of un alliance which furnisl~ed the asserto rs of ·British li berty and toleration with a champion who overthrew, it is hoped never to ri se agai n, despotism in churcf1 and state; • Rapin, vel. ii. p. 648. S K
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