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lency and the Councill, where, noe doubt, he will find discoveries of his owne concealement, as formerly, to satisfye the remaining or other his debentures.
4thly. The army in generall hath not fully discovered yett his legerdemaine, yett are they very jealouse of his land, consequently not his friends.
5thly. The summes extorted by the premisses will amount to above ten thousand pounds, according to carefull computation, in particulars, as in my former will appeare.
6thly. Nor hath his practise been thus with the State only, but with the artists allsoe by him employed, who, for fear of loss or fall by his greatness, have been forced to receive halfe of their wages in full satisfaction, more especially and such whose families wanted bread, as would make your heart relent were you sensible of it as I am. Is not this cruelty in the abstract, to deny the labourer his hire, to grind the face of the poor, to enter into his nelghboures lands by removing their land marks? Hath not these and the like oppressions occasioned the former desolation of these lands and effusion of blood out of our owne bowells? Have they not now provoked Providence to take our Josuah from among us, which makes our land mourne.
7thly. Yett noe adress dare be ventured against him, having shouldered in as sharer with St. Thomas Herbert and Dr Gorge in their places of Secretary, which he undertooke for noe other end then aborting of complaints, persons having better admission then paper, as he hath said in his ostentation; that is to say, to use his words, he undertooke and consequently putt noe other value uppon the place of clerke of the Councill then to keep doggs from his shinns.
8thly. Yett noe adress dare be ventured against him, being boulstred up with the presumption of his Excellencys highest favour, whereby hee is come to the pitch of arrogancy, having carried all things thus uncontrouled, that hee thinks himselfe fitt to be a princes brother in law,—your Lordshipps may guess the meaning,—and hath used exspressions equivalent with Wolseyes ego et rex meus, and is soe confident of his owne strength that, though his Excellency carries the sword, yet he beares the buckler, supposing danger can not reach his Mr, but throug his side; and what, besides his owne apprehensions and common fame, induce me to beleive something extraordinary herein, that uppon accident, being in company at a mornings draught in a common ale house, his kinsman, and deputy in his absence, not without ostentation, produced into pub-
