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 nor is it against Custome and Policy, so to do on the like occasions.

But not to digress, but to come more close to particulars, I am charged with Bribes, or Tanquam Bribes, or something like them, from one Flower, and one Sands.

1. As to Flower, I say that I never yet received a penny from him: Nor did I ever set him out Lands in particular: He hath received many hundred pounds (by virtue of a lawful Concession I made him as a private person, and at the desire of the Lord Deputy on his behalfe) even whilst I have been implicated by him, in most expensive Tribulations for nothing: I indeed joyned with others, in offering an Expedient, being especially thereunto required in order to mitigate a former just report, which the said Expedient recited. He has 500 l. per annum that was my due upon many Accompts, and yet I am forced to spend 500 l. per annum to save my selfe from being fined, as my Adversaries say, 50000 l. and that for thus making a fool of my selfe, in favor of this Flower.

Sir, More monstrous mistakes, and more absurd prejudices have never been known