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2ly, 'Twas to remove me wholly out of the Land; as standing Sentinel at the Crosswayes and Avenues, by which all the several Confederates must pass to their good things, but could not without beiugbeing [sic] too strictly examined. Forasmuch as my being Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant Clerk of the Councell, and the most doing Commissioner about the dispose of Lands, was a very great hinderance to many precious men, though not as to any business they durst propound or appear in, but as to the very mukingmaking [sic] of Propositions or suggestions, cunningly framed to wind in their own Ends. These having to meet in their way with one, who feared no Synagogue-Censures, was not to be mollified with warm Entertainments, not to be cajo'ed with Complements; Not dazzled with tinsell Arguments; nor easily to be wrought out of favour with Whispers, and with subtle Insinuations of all manner of fauls, which faults the Trepanners and Woodcock-catchers would never make more evident then by saying such and such perswasions were upon the Spirits of such and such, and that such and such