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 preventing even the suspition whereof, did I my self ever purchase any Land but in my own name? Had I ever Partnership with any? Did I meddle until the Body of the Army was satisfied? Did I not capitulate with the Council to have my Land by Election, thereby to exalt my self above the possibility or need of cheating in the least? What advantage was it to me to have fraudently with-held Lands as dubious, since I might have chosen out of the whole lump? What fraud could I use to force men to sell me their Debentures? For if they had the Market rate they had no wrong, nor could I force them to take less: For when men had once sold either for more or for less, I had no further power over them, nor had they any further hopes or fears of me: I could onely gratifie them who kept their Debentures: If the Market rate were not sufficient for Debentures, it was none of my fault, that the whole world of Traders in them conspired to deceive themselves: Again, Did I ever use frauds in taking or entering the sense of the Council, whilst I was their Clerk? Did I ever put in or put out a word without their