Hutchinson, Colonel, one of the Puritan leaders, and a prominent actor in the Puritan revolt, to the extent of signing the death-warrant of the king, but broke partnership as a republican with Cromwell when he assumed sovereign power, and sullenly refused to be reconciled to the Protector, though he begged him towards his end beseechingly as his old comrade in arms (1616‒1664).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hutchinson, Anne * Hutchinson, John