Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

By His Widow Lucy Hutchinson

Edited from the Original Manuscript by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson

To Which Are Added the Letters of Colonel Hutchinson and Other Papers; Revised with Additional Notes by C. H. Firth

The eyewitness biography of the rise and fall of a Puritan combatant during the English Civil War.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

Introduction

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, 1906 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2012

		Life of Mrs. Hutchinson
		Mrs. Hutchinson to Her Children
		Inscription on the Monument of Col. Hutchinson
		Verses Written by Mrs. Hutchinson
Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson
		[1616], [1619], [1619–36], [1636–38], [1639–41], [1603–25], [1625–40], [1640–41], [1642], [1643], [1644], [1645], [1646], [1647], [1648], [1649], [1650], [1651–58], [1659], [1660], [1661–62], [1663], [1664]
Appendices
	I.	Extracts from the Preface of the Rev. Julius Hutchinson to the First Edition of the Memoirs
	II.	A Letter from John Hutchinson to His Father Sir Thomass
	III.	A True Relation of Some Remarkable Passages Concerning the Nottinghamshire Petition, etc.
	IV.	Copy of a Letter from a Gentleman near Nottingham to His Friend in London
	V.	The Attempt to Obtain Possession of the Powder in the Magazine of the County of Nottinghamshire
	VI.	Sir John Gell
	VII.	Six Letters Relating to the Proposed Treaty of Neutrality for Notts, December 1642
	VIII.	Letter to Lord Fairfax Instructing Him to Guard Nottingham
	IX.	The Rendezvous at Nottingham, May and June, 1643
	X.	The Earl of Newcastle’s Letter to the Committee of Nottingham
	XI.	Colonel Hutchinson’s Quarrel with Sir Roger Cooper
	XII.	For Our Honoured Friend Gilbert Millington, Esq.
	XIII.	Quarrel between the Committees of Derby and Nottingham
	XIV.	A Discovery of the Treacherous Attempts of the Cavaliers to Have Procured the Betraying of Nottingham Castle
	XV.	Town Meeting at Nottingham to Decide the Question of Fortifying the Town
	XVI.	Letter to Mr. Millington January 3, 1644
	XVII.	Account of a Skirmish in January 1644
	XVIII.	Two Letters Describing the Attack Made on Nottingham, January 16, 1644
	XIX.	The Earl of Clare Prepares to Make His Peace with the Parliament
	XX.	Capture of King’s Mills
	XXI.	Attempt to Surprise Nottingham, February 17, 1644
	XXII.	Colonel Hutchinson’s Answer to the Summons to Surrender Nottingham, March 25, 1644
	XXIII.	The Quarrel between Colonel Hutchinson and the Committee of Nottingham
	XXIV.	Colonel Hutchinson’s Orders to the Garrison of Nottingham
	XXV.	On the Treatment of Prisoners, etc.
	XXVI.	Two Letters from Colonel Hutchinson to Lord Fairfax in May, 1645
	XXVII.	Two Letters Relating to Skirmishes near Nottingham, in the Autumn of 1645
	XXVIII.	The Capture of Shelford and Other Garrisons
	XXIX.	Plot to Betray Nottingham Castle
	XXX.	The Fight in Willoughby Field, July 5, 1648
	XXXI.	The Capture of Sir Marmaduke Langdale
	XXXII.	Colonel Hutchinson to the Speaker
	XXXIII.	Letter from the Mayor and Town of Nottingham to the Speaker
	XXXIV.	Petition of Colonel Hutchinson to the House of Commons, June 1660
	XXXV.	July 23, 1660.—Petition of Colonel John Hutchinson
	XXXVI.	Letter of Mrs. Hutchinson on the Sale of Owthorpe, 1671
	XXXVII.	Dedication to Mrs. Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius