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 and will do ſo ſtill if they do not abuſe me and my name as they have done. [sic] for this ſometime paſt I have been uſed very badly; and it is Mr. Malt if any one has done us all this wrong, which they ſay that I have done.

Who I, brother John? Indeed, but only thou art my brother, and I love thee well, or I ſhould hit thee one ſlap on thy teeth, but time will come when we ſhall meet again.

Gentlemen, as for my own part I will put the matter to the bench. But firſt I pray you conſider with yourſelves, that all tradeſmen ſhould live, and although I Maſter Malt do ſometimes make a cup of good liquor, and many men come to taſte it, yet the fault is neither in me nor my brother John No, no, the fault is in ſuch as there who make this complaint againſt us, as I ſhall make appear to you all.