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 and hazard. 4. From paying them their Moneys before demandable. 5. From their own loss and mislaying of their Accompts and Papers, &c. All being so just, as whereupon I had their legall Discharges, with many (at least seeming) thanks; what ever new Spirit hath of late been conjured up in the more querulous, indigent, and unconscionable part of these abused Abettors of Sir Hierom, some of which are such as for their gross miscarriages have been reprehended by me, and are therefore now become their own revengers upon me.

Moreover, I alwayes told these Surveyors what is since too truly come to pass; That when I had discharged them, they were discharged, but 't was otherwise with me, who had to deal with the State and Exchequer; and that I was considerable enough to be vext in a Parliament, by the interest of those whom I must be forced to offend; Upon which ground I stick not even now to declare afresh; That I ought to deal cautiously, and to be aforehand with them, whom I found to be from the beginning treacherous, disaffected, and too ravenous upon me; and into