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 This Libel being intercepted, must be brought as a great Service to the Lord Deputy: He as an impartial Justiciary must communicate it to the Officers of the Army, They must admire his Excellencies publick care: He again must expose me to be winnowed like Wheat; and thus I must like a restless Foot-ball be kickt up and down by the dirty Feet of a discontented multitude, and made subject to the severities of my known adversaries. Whereupon it came to pass, That many violent persons assembled themselves under the name of the Army, propound the seizing of all my Papers, the raising Moneys to prosecute me, and such other courses as for the time wholly discredited me in England, and defeated me of an employment Advantagious, wherein I might probably have gained above 1000l.

When I was arrived in Ireland, in order to obviate the motions of the Army, and had so far proceeded to put them into a way of being satisfied; as that no fault could be found with me by the seven Gentlemen appointed to examine that business: Then were Consultations had