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 and by such hands as to answer Ends, &c. I have hitherto described the Kernels, Warts and Wens, found or pretended to be about me, which unless they were grown to excessive numbers and extensions, could never have been offensive. I now come to the Diagnosis of that other subtle Intemperies and malignity pretended to be in my blood, Spirit, and Bowels, The cure whereof was the true reason of those bloody afore-mentioned Operations made upon the afore-mentioned most contemptible, and but pretended Excrescencies.

And first I must tell you, that the Minera Morbi was not the gain which might accrew to the Army hereby (the which with some other of the Undermentioned purposes have been pretended, as the true ends of this Warre, to them, who saw through the vanity of the several Articles above specified.) For although Mr. Worsly's wisdom hath put in the cheat of almost 15000 acres in his first Article, and then of 3000 acres gotten by redeeming of Incumberances in his second, and then taking of many thousand acres more, gained by Equalizations in the third;