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 questioned in a third or thirteenth Parliament, he having the trick of turning out all those which will not serve his turn: I say, if you wonder why I should do any thing to exasperate him, being in so tonitruating and fulgurating a condition as we now behold him; I answer,

1. That how great soever his malice, power and opportunity to hurt me, should be, as in that strange return of the Parliament it was, when my Adversaries thought the spirit of those in power was full of wrath and revenge, against a Single Person, and the Cromwel Family, (unto both which they were told I was a friend) yet he, with his Jackal Worsley so poorly managed their business, as that in the Opinion of the ablest Lawyers, I could not have been forced to have answered their Charge in Ireland: nor did they with all their devices hinder me of being acquit by the Act of Indempnity, even although I had been guilty of more villany, then they charged me with.

2ly, You must understand, that the oftner I am troubled in this manner, the more will their reckoning (which must be one day paid) be enflamed.