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 were offended, &c. all which did such & such no good, till such and such pulled down the whole frame on their heads, wherein I was but a pin, not having to this day cleared their own shoulders, Legs and Arms from the heavy Beams, Rafters, and Rubbish which is thereby fallen upon them.

3ly. The accusing and so disabling of me for publique administrations, was a design of the Sectarian party, because I affectionately promoted the Lord Lieutenants interest as my own particular friend, and not as their Enemy, and as a good man, and a lover of good men of all judgments, and not as being averse to be ridden and engrossed by any one party. This mistake of theirs arising from that his Lordship at the beginning of his Government, was by the indiscretion, ambition, and revenge of some Phaetons who rode with him in his Chariot, perswaded into a too hasty levelling of that peoples Domination, with that of other Mens. I say, my being so careful for the said Lords personal Concernment, made them think I was an Engine in all that hapned amiss to them, and the Instrument hid in a