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 may urge him to beclaw himself before he get me thence: If I am utterly undone by popular Rage, I am not the first, I have received good things, and must be content to take my share of the Evil also. If the Storm of injustice doth last to my utter consuming, I shall admire at the long suffering of God to them that occasion it, and shall say, How long, Lord, holy and true, wilt thou deferre avenging the oppressed?

Dear Sir, pardon these Excursions; Nam lacessitus loquor, which that you may the better do, as I have given you a Brief of what may be said for me, so I shall now give you the like relation of what hath been done against me, viz.  After I had given great security for performance of my Survey, I was threatned for employing raw insufficient Artists, although never any before went out so well accomplished, so carefully examined, fitted with so exact instruments, directed by such Uniform Rules and clear instructions, and under better Checks, whose work was so impartially tryed, by such not only as I my self appointed, but such also as the State appointed, and such as the 