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 upon the simple, and plain-dealing persons; still being inflexible, either with Rewards or Promises on either hand.

Fourthly, When I was Commissioner for setting out Lands; Did prayers, or promises, flatteries, or frowns work upon me, to meddle or make with separating the disposeable Land, from such as was not? and under colour thereof, to put in, or leave out at my pleasure, Land for incumbred or clear? Did I ever give any private hint or intimation, to those who acted in that work, of what I would have done? Did I transact otherwise with them, but to keep them to their work, and Expound unto them the General Rules, which they were, by the Council, the Army, and my fellow-Commissioners, appointed to follow, without ever examining the particular effect of their acting? When things were done according to the above-mentioned and other Rules, Could the Grandees of any Sect or Faction, or could an extorted command from the Lord Lieut. himself (whose Votary I was said to be) effect the alteration of any thing regularly fallen out, and concluded on? Were particular Importuners