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 taking State? did I decline any honest worthy person of mine old acquaintance? Was not I the common Advocate and Intercessor for those with whom others scorned to talk? Was my pride seen otherwise then in checking the pride of others? Did I ever make any man wait, whilst I was eating, drinking, or recreating my self? How easily did I give place to all that valued it? even to such as were not my Superiors, even by birth, but every way else my Inferiors: What did I aim at but to retire to my private industry, and to exercise my self in contrivances, for the publique and my own profit, and to spend that in Planting, which I had gotten in Surveighing the Land? Did I ever attempt to be eminent in any Faction? Did I ever study the subversion of any settlement, or the like?

As to Injustice, 'Twas never charged on me, in reference to matters of Right between man and man, or otherwise, then as for being too favourable to my self; But now, even as to this, Have I more Lands or better then the generality of other Traders bought for the like money? Have I so much Land by 4000l. worth?