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 not made near the advantage which a Stranger, Sedentary Schollar, and a very young Man was like to make even by a slight; And lastly, when those that called themselves the old Surveyors, were unmasked, and the world let to see, that what those formal Glorioso's cryed up for a mystery, was nothing beyond the reach of a mean capacity within a few moneths time: Then all those several persons set themselves to throw blocks in my way, and to hang clogs at my heels, whereby to make my Merits and Fortunes no more considerable then their own.

4ly, I was constrained to collect by driblets, from above five hundred particular persons belonging to the Army, the Monys which I was to receive intire from the State; by which means many Controversies arose, even upon that; And from those Controversies we commonly fell into unpleasant, thredbare wrangles about profitable and unprofitable Land, (all contentious discourse still ending in that) And consequently into many other matters, which wid'ned the Breaches first made. Upon occasion whereof, hapned also many smart jeers and reparties, all