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 packt the Cards wherewith I was to play for my All; although the tryal of those his Articles could at that juncture, be no where so well made as in England; yet never delivers his Articles, or order of reference to the Commissioners in Ireland, but keeps me three moneths in a languishing and waiting condition to hear from them; Nevertheless when he heard I was otherwise engaged, he distracts and discomposes my affairs, with a false alarum of his own making insolently writing to me, that I must prepare for an hearing, still breaking promise with me in every Circumstance of his actings.

So as you see, Sir, that I have been often and vehemently assaulted by this Knight whom I never justly provoked, under colour of righting them who never complained nor desired his Patronage; That I have often been questioned for my Lands and Free-holds; Nay, for my Life, Limbs, and Liberties, (as by this crackling Knights Rodomontado's one would think) out of the ordinary Courts of Justice upon Articles and Libels, contrary to the known Lawes of the Land; I have been twice impeached in