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 course, was not neer worth my pains in collecting it: And as for the other fraudulent payment; I was forced to take Lands in pawn for part of my money, or else until this day to have had nothing, which Lands I could have bought in the ordinary way of Debentures, for the original money detained from me, by reason of the Souldiers own disagreement and delayes concerning the final Conclusion of their satisfaction; And yet now, although I took this way of satisfaction, not only as payment for my Survey, but also towards a reward for my distribution likewise: Yet must I be troubled and prosecuted as a Cheat, even for accommodating those that complain; nor may I be suffered to put what was extraordinarily done into the common Road; because my Adversaries (who will be pleased neither full nor fasting) hope to make by their Criticisms that to be irregular, which was indeed but singular, and a Singularity of more advantage to the publick, then my self.

In the next place, they tax me for having about 600 in monies, which (as they fancy) in strictness I could not require, never taking notice (though their affections