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 Dublin; was busie in the most superstitious Ceremonies (if any such be) performed at the Enstalment of a Chancellor, sticking at nothing that might make him, or at least make him seem) something; witness also his late being for & against the Protector, for & against the present Parliament, all within a small space, he being one of the first Recanters of the Apostacy from the said Long Parliament, and the very first that returned to the same again.

Moreover, when the Parliament was dissolved, April 1659. and that I (after many daies waiting to attend the Knights further Motions) returned into Ireland. The Knight used means to have me stopt under the notion of an Incendiary; and being arrived in Ireland, to have mee sent back as a Prisoner; and failing of that, to have me suspended my attending as Clerk of the Councel, and forbidden to come near the Lord Lieutenants person: In the mean time, hee and his Complices begetting upon all persons in Authority in England the most odious and prejudicial Characters they possibly could.

Furthermore, Sir Hierome sends for Worsly out of the Queens County in