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Mr. Barnard's hand-writing*, nor indeed any evidence to prove that he was the writer of them, except his being in Hyde Park, and in the Abbey, at the times when the writers of the firfl and fecond let- ters appointed the Duke to meet hira there.

It feenied, however, to be incum- bent upon Mr. Barnard, to fhew how he came to be at thofe places juft at thofe times ; and this he has done in a very particular manner, fupported by very credible telti- Eiony.

He proved, that on the Sunday morning mentioned in the nril let- ter to the Duke, his father ordered him to go to Kenfjngton to the folicitor of the turnpike, to know whether the treafurer of the turn- pike had not paid fome money for his ufe : That in confequence of this order he did go to Ken- fjngton, faw the folicitor of the turnpike there, dined afterwards with his uncle, at his houfe at Kenfington, in company with fe- vera! other perfons, to whom he re- lated the particulars of the Duke's coming up to him ia Hyde Park, and alking if he had any thing to fay to him. This is attefted by Barnard thi father, who gave him orders to go to Kenfington, by the perfoa to whom he went, by his uncle, with whom he dined, and feveral others that were at the Lme table.

As to his being in the Abbey, he proved that Mr. James Green- wood, a relation, a brewer at Deptford, being at breakfaft with him, on the Sunday mentioned in the fecond letter, at his father's.

where he had lain the night before, defired him to get himlelf drefied. and go with him into the Park: That he did not comply till after much folicitation ; and th^t whea they came to the end of Henry the Vllth's chapel, Mr. Barnard would have gone into the Park without going through the Abbey, if Mr. Greenwood had not infilled, on the contrary, as he had never feen General Hargrave's monu- ment. This Mr. Greenwood was that good-looking man whom the Duke fays he f:,w come into the Abbey with Mr. Barnard. As Barnard had told Greenwood the iirange circumftance of the Duke's fpeaking to him in the Park, Greenwood, as foon as he faw the Duke, whom he knew, told Bar- nard who he was ; for Barnard, being very near-fighted, had noc feen him, and if he had, would not have known him. Mr. Green- wood obferving the Duke to come up to him, and pafs him feveral times, fuppofed he had a mind to fpeak to Mr. Barnard, but would not do it till he was alone ; and for that reafon he left him, and went into the choir. Thefe fafts are at-. teiled by Mr. Greenwood, the only perfon to whom they could be known ; and it fhould be obferved, that Mr. Barnard could not ap- point a meeting on thefe days, in confequence of his having bufi- nefs which at thofe times would call him to the places mentioned, becaufe he did not know of his go- ing either to the Park or the Ab- bey, till the very days on which he went.

Mr. Barnard alfo proved, by

counts tor there being no comparing the writing in the letters with his lather's books, or with any other writing under his hand.
 * The three letters are faid to have been written in print hand, which ac-

unexceptionable