@ he suspended Maty pleasure should be known from thereon @ @ hee taken into the Sheriffs custody and there remain till hee should give in such security as in the said orders is expressed as relation to the said orders had, may more at large appear Upon search of the Pap's relating to his Maty s revenue I found a charge drawn up against myself with letters to his Maty Lord T'sear Lord Chancellor @ several other gentlemen stuft with complaints against me and other p'sons which are wholly false Indeed its true the poor gentleman since his coming here has been troubled with 3 or 4 hypocondriack fitts, he was in one of them when his Mat) 8 nomination of the Council came over auditors herewith sent, It

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upon which they all thought it not convenient to have him sworn at least at that time as your Lopp s will see by the minutes of council And my lords to bee short I must say this of him lies a man wholly unfit for business especially this wherein hee has noe more skill than a child, Soe that for the executing of it hee must have his whole dependance on another. I am sure if I had not taken more care of the Revenue than hee did since I found his failure it had been more embezled than it is for though he received the money I was obliged to continual watching to guard against his carelessness @ neglects And truly what he takes very ill what there is neither president nor establishment for In his commission hee has allowed him ,£200 p annum the same allowance that Dyer had in the time of S Edmond Andros of which £100 was for the Surveyor Comptroller @ Waiter therefore I finding no new establishment allow him no more than Dyer had for him @ his officers Salary it being the sentiment of the Council that I could not alter the former practice with which they were well acquainted But he gives himself a far larger allowance he will have it that his salary is sterr