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 ) with the respects and particular services I have done even unto those who have most wronged me, and whom I have in particular pricked; will acknowledge I have not been sharp according to what I have been whetted unto. As for Sankey and Worsly, you will admire how much matter I have forced myself to suppress concerning them; neither of which two; can receive better from any who have seen through their hollow and fawning practices towards their friends, and the cruelty and baseness they use towards others.

As for Sands and Flower, they will have no reason to complain of their hard usage, if ever I can obtain but a fair hearing of their deserts. I call Major Ormsby my implacable Foe, because he himself hath threatned to spend his whole Estate to ruine me; but I have not in revenge replied, that Estates gotten like his are commonly so spent; nor have I said, that I am (nor am I) such an Enemy to him.

As for Religion, I have not said, much