4~1 I-Iutchinson _might have as well bene kept tfpon it as 'he; bu~ the lieftenant refus'd to give him a copie, and his iaylor told th~ prisoner it was alter'd after they had kept him four or five months. in prison: then the collonell writt to Bennett, but neither c<;mld he obteine any copie of his cqmmitment from him. :After this a fi·iend gav!" him notice that they had a designe totransport him to some island or _plantation; whereupon he writt a_ narrative of his imprisonment, and procur'd it to be secretly printed, to have left behind him, if he had bene sent away, to acquaint the parliament, which was then shortly to assemble, a;nd to leave with his friends; but he kept them in the mean time privately.' At length, through the lies that the lieftenant of the Tower made of his prisoners, and the mallice of their wicked persecutors, who envied even the bread whi~h charity sent in to feed some of the men whose estates were wholly taken away, warrants were signed for carrying away most of the prisoners, some to Tangier, &nd. to other barbarous and distant places.: among the rest Coil. Hutchinson was design'd to the Isl e of Man, which Sr. Alien Apsley. hearing of, told the king he had some private businesse of trusts with the collonell concerning his owne estate, for which he obtein'd that he might be respited three months, and have liberty for lawyers to come to him. But when the collonell heard of it, he was more displeas'd with this petty fitvour then wi,\h all their rigour, and resolv'd to have done something to reverse it, but that his wife perswaded him to ; At the time of Col. Hutchinson's imprisonment the- parliament were so devoted to the views of the court that they might very likely have taken little notice of his representations. l\1any yeat·s elapsed before they anima<h-erled as they ought ,upon such nrbitrary and unjust proceedings. Probab ly the time will neve r arrive when parliaments will become sensibl e of the solecism of mak,ng good laws and then dispensing with the execution of them. The fact is, that govenwrs and makers of laws seldom feel the effects of them in. their own persons: to t~e governed, any variableness destroyz the benefi t of all laiv.
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