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2ly, 'Twas to remove me wholly out of the Land; as standing Sentinel at the Crosswayes and Avenues, by which all the several Confederates must pass to their good things, but could not without beiug too strictly examined. Forasmuch as my being Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant Clerk of the Councell, and the most doing Commissioner about the dispose of Lands, was a very great hinderance to many precious men, though not as to any business they durst propound or appear in, but as to the very muking of Propositions or suggestions, cunningly framed to wind in their own Ends. These having to meet in their way with one, who feared no Synagogue-Censures, was not to be mollified with warm Entertainments, not to be cajo'ed with Complements; Not dazzled with tinsell Arguments; nor easily to be wrought out of favour with Whispers, and with subtle Insinuations of all manner of fauls, which faults the Trepanners and Woodcock-catchers would never make more evident then by saying such and such perswasions were upon the Spirits of such and such, and that such and such
