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Rh much worth, as that a person of Mr Boyle's honour and learning should be used so scurvily to obtain 'em. That scorn and contempt which I have naturally for pride and insolence, makes me remember that which otherwise I might have forgot.

Believe me, Sir, to be Your faithful Friend and humble Servant,

Doctors Commons, Octob. 13, 1697.

The case, then, between me and Dr Bentley stands thus: there is, on the one side, Dr Bentley's single assertion in his own cause; and these several concurring accounts from persons of probity and worth, on the other. The question now is (if it be a question), which of these ought to be credited? The point to me is so clear that I dare trust the most partial friend Dr Bentley has, to determine it.

Mr Bennet and Mr Gibson, I think, are so little interested in this dispute that they may be entirely depended upon. However, Dr King is a witness without exception, and the account he gives of one