439 so w:eU sat~s'fiecJ, 1ha.t he thoLqght not his prison now insuppor.tablc; neither in<iieed ~vas it so to l1im before, for his patience ~nd fatth <wgnderfully ca,n,ied him on under all !Jis sufferings. As it now drew titgh t0 the latter .end of the y-ear, 1\ft•s. Hwtchinson, having prepar'd the l::touse, was necessitated to goe to Owth0rpe to fetch her chil~ dren, and other supplies to ·her husband; whom, when the time of .l>ter .departure came, she left with .a ¥ery sad .and ill-presaging heart, .rather .dpeadimg that whi le he ·lay so ready on the sea-coast, .he might S@me lliime or other be shipt <lWay to s0me barbarous .place in her ·a:bsence ~hen Jthat which after ensued. The collonell c9mforted all ~e ~0nld, and that morning she went away, " Now," sayd he, " I " myselfe .begin to be loath to part with thee." Bnt yet, according to ~1is usual chearefullnessc, he encourag'd himselfe and her, and sent his .s0nne along with her. His daughter and his brother stay'd at Deale; who comming to him every day, he walk'd out with them .by the seaside, and would discourse of .the publique concernments, and say that the ill management of the state would cause discontented wild parties to mutinie and rise against-the present powers, but they would only put things in confusion; it must be a sober par,tie that must then arise and settle them. He would often say to .his sonne and his wife, as he did now to his brother, " Let not my . f' ,sonne, how fairely soever they pretend, too rashly engage with " the fil'St, .but stay to see what they make good, and engage with " •those who are for settlement, who will have ·need of men of in- " terest to assist them; let him keep cleare and take heed of too " ,rash attempts, and he will be courted if he behave himselfe piously " ,and prudently, and keepe free of all faction, making the publique "inteuest .only his." He would sometimes in discourse say, that ;when these 'people -once had an armie up, which they seem'd to a.yme att, that armie would be their destruction, for he was very confident .God would bring them downe : he would often say they .aould not stand, and that whoever had aniething to doe with them 3 N
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