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 how to impeach me in Parliament, where for want of friends and interest, the bold assertions of Enemies might suffice to do me prejudice: In pursuance whereof, Sir Hierom being a Member of Parliament, and having made it his business to give ugly Characters of me to the other members, did on the 24th of March, 16$58⁄59$, before above 400 persons of Honour, representing the Three Nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, set me forth as the greatest Monster this nation had bred, a very beast of Prey, full of fraud and rapine, and one against whom nothing could be too severe, and thus got me commanded over, with allowance of but a bare moneths time, to answer a general Charge, mentioning neither the time nor place of any fact committed, nor the name of any one person injured.

The complaint made by this storming Knight, was in behalf of the State, the Army, particularly Officers and Souldiers, as also Surveyors, notwithstanding he had no Commission so to do from any of them: And for matters done, which had been throughly question'd before, but never condemn'd, either by any of the four Courts