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 large and many fruits from so young a tree; And yet when I recollect your Lordships Arguments, as that you believed the chief end of this Charge, was meerly to take away the Dr. from the Lord Liev. that so some considerable design might run the more smoothly; That it was laid to throw dirt upon his Lordship himself, as one cherishing in his bosom a dangerous Viper, and using a wicked instrument in his greatest affairs, &c. when your Lordship was also pleased to tell me, That my Lord Liev. had often exposed the Dr. to all manner of Tryals: that the poor Persequitato had been often questioned, and as often cleared before the Council, (who were not all of them his friends) That your Lordship had often heard the Dr. (upon reasoning with the particular persons who thought themselves injured) alwaies to convince the indifferent, and silence his Adversaries, how well armed soever they, and how naked and unprovided soever he was for such Encounters; that you having observed in him several signs of integrity and veracity, did seriously ask him, whether, bona fide, such Complainants had