419 were no truer then the professions, for they were utterly false; for at his first coming into the Tower no man had mutter'd more then he, who scarce refrein'd even blaspherpies against God himse1fe for bringing him into hondage. After his release he went to their common prayer, and pleas'd them so well that 'twas sayd they would give him an office. But when they found that, notwithstanding their hint, Mr. Hutchinson would not follow his example, their mallice grew very bitter against him at the court, insomuch that a gentleman having tre'ated with Mrs. Hutchinson for a neice of his, to whom he was guardian, that would have beJJe a convenient fortune for her sonne, the chancellor sent for the gentleman and peremptorily forbade him to proceed in the affaire,' and openly sayd, " he " must keepe their famely downe ." Mr. Hutchinson was not at all dismay'cl, but wonderfully pleas'd with all these things, and told his wife this captivity was the happiest release in the world to him; for before, all though he had made no express engagement, yet, in regard his life and estate had bene freely left him, when they tooke away others, he thought himselfe oblig'd to sitt still all the while this king reign'd, whatever opertunity he might have; but now he thought this usage had utterly disoblieg'd him from all ties either of honour or conscience, and that he was free to act as prudence should hereafter lead him, and that he thought uot his liberty out of prison worth the purchase by any future engagement, which would againe fetter him in obligations to such persons as every day more and more manifested themselves enemies to all iust and godly interests. He therefore charg'd his wife that she should not make applications to any person whatsog Vi' hat base and atrocious malice! yet this was the virtuous Lord Clarendon ! This method of alternately persecuting those whom they suspect, and suspecting those they pe rsecUte, has for ever been the practice of bad ministers, and has for ever created rebels, and will for ever continue to create new ones in the place of those they destroy .
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