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JOHN HUTCHINSON (1615-1664)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 13 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HUTCHINSON (1615-1664)  , Puritan soldier, son of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Hutchinson of Owthorpe, See also:Nottinghamshire, and of See also:Margaret, daughter of Sir See also:John See also:Byron of Newstead, was baptized on the 18th of See also:September 1615 . He was educated at See also:Nottingham and See also:Lincoln See also:schools and at Peterhouse, See also:Cambridge, and in 1637 he entered Lincoln's See also:Inn . On the outbreak of the See also:great See also:Rebellion he took the See also:side of the See also:Parliament, and was made in 1643 See also:governor of Nottingham See also:Castle, which he defended against See also:external attacks and See also:internal divisions, till the See also:triumph of the See also:parliamentary cause . He was chosen member for Nottinghamshire in See also:March 1646, took the side of the See also:Independents, opposed the offers of the See also:king at See also:Newport, and signed the See also:death-See also:warrant . Though a member at first of the See also:council of See also:state, he disapproved of the subsequent See also:political conduct of See also:Cromwell and took no further See also:part in politics during the lifetime of the See also:protector . He resumed his seat in the recalled See also:Long Parliament in May 1659, and followed See also:Monk in opposing See also:Lambert, believing that the former intended to maintain the See also:commonwealth . He was returned to the See also:Convention Parliament for Nottingham but expelled on the 9th of See also:June 166o, and while not excepted from the See also:Act of See also:Indemnity was declared incapable of holding public See also:office . In See also:October 1663, however, he was arrested upon suspicion of being concerned in the See also:Yorkshire See also:plot, and after a rigorous confinement in the See also:Tower of See also:London, of which he published an See also:account (reprinted in the Harleian See also:Miscellany, vol. iii.), and in See also:Sandown Castle, See also:Kent, he died on the 11th of September 1664 . His career draws its See also:chief See also:interest from the See also:Life by his wife, See also:Lucy, daughter of Sir See also:Allen Apsley; written after the death of her See also:husband but not published till 18o6 (since often reprinted), a See also:work not only valuable for the picture which it gives of the See also:man and of the See also:time in which he lived, but for the See also:simple beauty of its See also:style, and the naivete with which the writer records her sentiments and opinions, and details the incidents of her private life . See the edition of Lucy Hutchinson's See also:Memoirs of the Life of See also:Colonel Hutchinson by C . H . See also:Firth (1885) ; Brit .

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Mus . Add . See also:MSS . 25,901 (a fragment of the Life), also Add . MSS . 19, 333, 36,247 f . 51; Notes and Queries, 7, see. iii . 25, viii . 422; Monk's Contemporaries, by See also:Guizot .

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