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 worth but 250 l. at most; he gives out that his House was to be given me as a Bribe, for but having about the like quantity of Land set him out upon his Debenture, when I contriv'd a way for his reliefe in a hard case (which I since hear to be much softer) he intimates that I would be paid for it; whereas I onely desired that I might be no looser for postponing my own Prior Order of favour for his accommodation: When out of the like tenderness (as Nurses use to their sick Children) I thought of many waies to please and accommodate him, he terms them all stratagems to abuse him; when I invented laudable and honest means to facilitate the granting of his Petition, He would have them thought so many tricks to cozen the State. When he found he could not perform what he had promised about disincumbring the above mentioned House, He to break with me, interprets our Agreement and his Orders in an impossible and abominable sence: When certain Lands, (possest according to all the Lawes and Rules then in force, irregularly by an Adventurer in wrong to the Souldiers) were proposed to him, and he advised