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and plainest matters that he had against me; and that he would take the help of his Python Worsley; proffering to put the whole upon the issue of that single point he should pitch upon; and withal, to let the same be tryed, even by the judgment of any whom his usurpt and abused Patron my Lord Fleetwood should nominate. And lastly, I offered, when we had so tryed the business here for the satisfaction of my Lord Fleetwood, (which I abundantly desired,) that in case I were cleared, yet to try over the same things again more judicially afterwards. But Sir Jerome, to reward all this my tenderness of him, refuses the motion, keeps off my tryal in Ireland, never so much as delivering the Articles, and the Parliaments Order of Reference unto the Referees appointed, yet sends me false Alarms to discompose my Affairs and Negotiations in England;Vid. Explic. and threatned, upon the Armies owning the Northern Brigades Proposals, promoted by himself, but distasted by the Parliament, to give me no quarter, &c. What remains therefore for me to do now, (when the Law is dead or asleep) but to call a Spade a Spade, and to give
