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 a full Table: And moreover, All this while, I never sollicited the particular Members of the Council in private, seldom fawning on them at their Tables, never officiously seeking to lessen the wholesome strictness they used towards me: And as for my Lord Lieutenant, When I have perceived him passionately affected with the hardships used towards me, I ever made it my business to beg his carelessness and unconcernment for me; still alluring him, that the Justice and Right I sought, must with a little more time, and without any trouble of his Lordship, take place and prevail, to my Honour and Comfort.

But to proceed: They charge me with a Fogery of 516 l. which is a meer piece of Rashness and Ignorance in the Article-maker: Who as to a part of that Sum hath added where he ought to have subtracted. And as to another part, he takes no notice that I was by Articles bound to repay it (which I never denyed) at a day not then, nor yet come, and which the Armies own wranglings onely kept of.

I shall trouble you but with one point more, for I would not implicate