Upon hearing of which charge and answer @ y e proofs thereto herewith likewise sent, thee council made their report to mee under their hands, in manner as your Lop 3 sees by the copy thereof which you have likewise herewith wherein altho' they positively say that he has been an unfaithful serv1 to his Mat y in the management of his Revenue, yet I sent for him @ advised him to give in security for the ballance of the acct that by the audit he was found behind hand. And for his better carriage for the future which if hee did I promised to pass by all former faults @ make noe complaint against him. I not only told him this myself but from time to time sent messages to him to this effect sometimes by such of the council as were his particular friends sometimes by the ministers @ often by the Secretary but all to noe purpose hee still continued obstinate And what returns hee made mee to these several instances of my kindness I shall not now trouble your Lop s with Nevertheless I forbare doing anything further against him till the expiration of the second audit

proposing that then when I could know the whole amount of his debt I would at once doe my best to secure the Kings concerns from sustaining any loss by him

At last hee brought in a book without being signed and said he could not lieve them neither, Mr Blathwayt Whereupon we were forct to give him 3 weeks longer to get them copied @ then with great adoe he signed them @ brought in with them an they being to bee sent over to