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 privacy for his own sake to prevent his disappointment, He intimates that I did it to conceal my own knavery: Whereas, though he was eager to have the said Lands by hook or crook; Yet as soon as he perceived he might not have the Housing on them, his Eyes were then first opened, and his conscience then first smote him, for coveting another Mans possessions. When being weary of the trouble he gave me, I desired him to take out of my hands his Agreement, Orders, &c. and to trouble me no more; He affirms he was fain by strugling to tear the said Papers peece-meal out of my hands. And lastly, when I gave him Brotherly and Christian admonition concerning his thick miscariages in this business: He then contrives how to accuse me. and render me the most corrupt wretch in the world, whom for a whole year before, he profest to be the most upright, patient, and misunderstood person he knew. All this, while pretending Conscience and Religion, which makes me ask,

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