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 pretend, as fraud in my Accompts, ''viz. My having received 2665 l. three times over,'' Whereas indeed 't was nothing but receiving the same in a scambling manner, part in one, part in another, and part in a third way, (the two latter being termed fraudulent) all of them together, not making up one such payment as I ought to have had; it being in effect about two hundred pounds short of what my satisfaction, precisely and according to my Contract should have been. Now as to one of these pretended fraudulent waies: Consider, That I was forced to collect and wrangle out of the Souldiers in an ungrateful way, and by driblets, what the State was bound to pay me in a lump; to receive in base Spanish money, what I was to have had in good sterling; as also to run up & down with assignments from Post to Pillar, and to give my hand five or six times over for the same thing; and (which was worst of all) run a dunning of disbanded Souldiers, and other Debenture-Buyers, which were not in the pay of the Army; and yet I am complained of, when all the Money I received from them upon this pretended fraudulent