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 further of, if he would be ſo good as to ſatisfy me.

Cool.) Laſt time we met, I refuſed you nothing you aſked, and now I expect that you will refuſe me nothing that I ſhall aſk.

Ogil.] Nothing, Sir, that is in my power, or that I can with ſafety to my reputation and character. What then are your demands?

Cool.) All that I deſire of you is, That as you promiſed that Sabbath-day, you would go to my wife, who now poſſeſſes all my effects, and tell her the following particulars, and tell her in my name, to rectify theſe matters. Firſt, That I was owing juſtly to Provoſt Croſby, five hundred pounds Scots, and three years intereſt: But upon hearing of his death, my good-brother the Laird of Chappel and I, forged a diſcharge, narrated the bond, the ſum and other particulars, with this honerous clauſe, that at the time it was fallen by, and could not be found; with an obligation on the Provoſt's part, to deliver up the bond, as ſoon as he could hit upon it; and this diſcharge was dated three months before the Provoſt's death; and when his ſon and ſucceſſor Andrew Croſby, wrote to me concerning this bond, I came to him, and ſhewed him the diſcharge, which ſilenced him; ſo that I got out my bond without more ado. And when I heard of Robert Kennedy's death, with the ſame help of Chappel, I got a bill