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 under other mens names, was contented with other mens scraps and leavings, ventured to deal in Lands against my own inclinations, meerly to pacifie those who pretended fear of my giving Ireland the flip with my mony, forbore dealing at such times as caused my hinderance neer 4000 l. and that, to prevent imaginary scandal, I acted in the most artificial, laborious, odious, and dangerous Employments, without any Wages yet paid mee: I have Land assigned, for the one half whereof I never got a penny profit, of many parcels not so much as the possession, of few the possession without extraordinary trouble; I never made any man a Delinquent to get his Lands, have encouraged and assisted many poor men to recover to themselves what by the rigorous construction of the Law they had forfeited.

But for the more full explication of this point concerning Land, I must acquaint you, that there be two crimes charged upon mee, which I may call Ministerial, whereby they say I got the Lands much better and better cheap then