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 satisfied Debentures twice or three times over, without the least just blame; we might have suffered stolen Debentures satisfied, Anno 1653. and 1655. to be served all over in 1656. We might have forged or altered Debentures, making six to be sixty, &c. and might have glued Papers on part satisfactions endorsed: How easie had it been to have altered the Lists of Debentures, after Lots for priority, and the strings of Denominations were agreed upon? thereby to have given what we had pleased unto each, or by the fraudulent casting of a Lot, to have wedged in Debentures between what Lots we had pleased; and consequently to have made the Lots fall out at pleasure, In order whereunto, How many Legerdemain tricks might we have practised in casting of Lots? as in a double bottom'd hat, or by privily mark't Lots: or by instructing some craftie Childe out of what part of an Hats lining to take each Lot; Or by making many Lots, all for one and the same thing, &c. None of all which, and many more abominable Artifices and Legerdemanes had ever footing in our Office; For