LAST ROYAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 7 



of Colonel John Hutchinson of Owthorpe, written by 

 his widow Lucy. Nowhere do we get a pleasanter 

 picture of domestic life in the time of Charles I., or of 

 the personality of a great Puritan soldier, than in those 

 strong pages, glowing with sweet wifely devotion. 

 This John Hutchinson, valiant defender of Notting- 

 ham and regicide judge, was eleventh in descent from 

 Bernard Hutchinson, of Cowland, in Yorkshire, a 

 doughty knight of the time of Edward I. From the 

 same Bernard, apparently through Richard of Wyck- 

 ham, in the sixth generation, in a chain of which one 

 link still awaits complete verification, came Edward 

 Hutchinson, of Alford, in Lincolnshire, who flourished 

 in the reign of Elizabeth, but lived long enough to see 

 hundreds of his friends and neighbours forsake their 

 homes and set forth under Winthrop's leadership to 

 found a colony in Massachusetts Bay. From one of 

 Edward's younger sons are descended the Irish earls 

 of Donoughmore, including the able general who, for 

 overthrowing the remnant of Napoleon's army in 

 Egypt in 1801, was first raised to the peerage as Lord 

 Hutchinson. Edward's eldest son, William, born two 

 years before the defeat of the Spanish Armada, was 

 married in 1612 to Anne Marbury, daughter of a 

 Lincolnshire clergyman, a scion of the distinguished 

 family of Sir Walter Blunt. Anne's mother was sister 

 to Sir Erasmus Dryden, grandfather of the great poet. 

 William and his wife were warm friends and adhe- 

 rents of John Cotton, rector of St. Botolph's, and after 

 that famous divine had taken his departure for New 

 England, they were not long in following him. Will- 

 iam's father, the venerable Edward, had died in 1631 ; 

 and three years afterward, taking the widowed mother, 



