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 were true) what real and necessary work was done for it, by way of reparing the States own Ministers ignorance or neglect, without which extraordinary work, twenty times as much other Charge that the State was put to, had signified nothing: Nor taking notice of 2000l reimbursement, which I tamely swallowed and discounted, though by no Law compellible thereunto; Nor of the many extraordinary Sufferings I endured in the whole course of my work, all which motives and pretentions to the said 600l. were rigorously debated, and again and again referred, before the imaginary indulgence was allowed me: Where also by the way, I must, Sir, advertise you, That I never was for two or three years together admitted to speak at the Council Board about my own business, in the absence of such Members as were critically skilled in it; and also of such other their Ministers as either hated or envied me; Nor did I ever procure Order upon any Petition without committing and recommitting it, nor under three weeks time: No amendment (though but of a word) escaping without a formal reading again of the whole at