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 I have hitherto set forth the several matters, as well those whereof I have been accused and not condemned, as those for which I am condemned without having been so much as accused, as they relate to the designing and concerned parties. I now come to give you my own Conjectures of the true cause of the more popular Envy and Odium I fell under, Whether those causes have been, either by inevitable misfortunes or indiscreet miscarriages, and that with reference to the Multitude, consisting of all parties and factions together.

My first Enemies were the Surveyors employed before my undertaking, among whom Mr. Worsly was chief (in whom my refusal some time before to lend him the monies I my self had present use for; and that to maintain a greater pomp and splendor then became his estate and condition, was the first seed of his Enmity, which seed was much virtuated and cherished by the Eclipse which my undertaking threatened to his pretences of skill in the Conduct of the Survey.) These Surveyors (with their said General) did labour by all means to supplant me, traduce me and my Instruments, to beget false Opinions