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 Sir, I beg your pardon for thus mingling, this Satyrical excursion, with that serious Narration which I onely intended at this time; But I will forbear now, for you shall have enough of this hereafter, when by the Quadrant of my future usage, I shall have measured the latitude I am to take in that way.

Wherefore not further to digress, nor to accumulate more Arguments, I take for proved, that the end of some was to wrench the power of distributing the Land out of my hands, and to transfer it into their own; Onely adding, that I wish they had done it some years before, and wonder why they should pull out that tooth with so much cruelty, whose aking a drop of water could have eased, but perhaps they thought I would hold it as fast, as they desired it earnestly, measuring me by themselves, who knew a better way to improve that power then ever I had thought of.

Another cause of my incumbent vexation is, Sir Hierom Sanky's Ambition and desire to raise himself, though by the ruine of me; which ambition of his is also of that nature, that I charitably