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and fet a watch; and the governor waxed very wroth, inafmuch as the people were not willing to come under the yoke : and being exceedingly mad againll them, he fpake bitter words againft them, yet the people cared for none of thofe things.

7. And it came to pafs, that the people of the provinces were told that the governor had fent letters to the king's fervants in the ifland of Britain, concerning them, and that there were words in the letters that ought not to have been there; words of fophiftry, tending to ftrife. And the people were grieved there- at.

8- Now Dunmorfy the governor, walked not in the ways of Guy; but in the ways of Sanballat and Tobias^ the Jews enemy, who hindered Nehsmiah from building up the walls of Jerufalem, and he made the breach wider between the king and the people of the pro- vinces. .