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 worth yet ten times more then those Ananiasse's would acknowledge them to be worth; and this I sometimes did, to shame those Murmurers against Providence, but not to buy any thing from them, as by their complaint they think I intended.

Moreover, when Trepanners have come to me proffering to sell their Debentures, as not liking their hopes of satisfaction, I have perhaps (which is more then I know of, to give such men Rope) talked with them as a Buyer, but never dealt on this; no more then on the last mentioned occasion.

Lastly, Sir Hierome does not complain of buying Debentures without licence, nor of tricks used to elude the prohibition of buying under 8s in the pound; for then he must accuse himself and others; notoriously guilty of abusing, not Debenture-Brokers, but their own poor Souldiers, whom remaining under his command, We may conceive frightable into any bargain.

But what if Witnesses be brought to swear the contrary of all this? Then I say, at present, that even as in the point afore-going, I proved that I had not