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REV. SIR,

RETURN you my thanks for your'syours [sic] of the 8th instant. I do not wonder, that you were in some confusion when you wrote it; for I assure you I read it with great horrour, which such a fact is apt to create in every body, that is not hardened in wickedness. I received several other letters with narratives of the same, and saw some, that came to other hands; but none so particular, or that could be so well depended upon. I observe, that, among them all, there is no account of the matters laid to Guiscard's charge, of his design, or how he came to be discovered. I suppose those are yet secrets, as it is fit they should be. I do remember something of this Guiscard, and that he was to head an invasion; Rh