Of his own head hee bought a little rotten tool of a sloop on pretence for his Mat 5s service, which as your Lop s may see by their audit, has stood the King in near £100 @ now cannot be sold for thirty soe must either be laid up or burnt In his instructions @ by several orders from me @ the council he was expressly forbid to trust out his Mat ys revenue notwithstanding I was forc't to take notes from him to the value of £800. besides a great will perceive

many more which hee pretends still

to

bee standing out as your Lop s

by the audit

Hee has likewise been negligent in taking

the bonds required by the laws of the Goverment

from the masters of ships one ill consequence whereof has been the New York Pink has carried off several

Elephants teeth without entry,

@ the bond being inquired for there was none taken

How he has behaved himself touching an Interloper that came in hither I have already given

f

Benj. Bathurst an account, and as for the debts for

him pretended

to

too the auditors

upon

enquiry the most of them are found to bee received by him. and I believe of thee rest, the twentieth part will never be had, they are soe

ill

And besides notwithstanding his confused way of accounting @ being without a cheque upon him as aforesaid, he is found by his own accounts brought into the audit to bee £1758 15 shillings threepence and | ths of a penny in debt to the King as your Lop s may see by the said audit which (as is to bee feared) is all gone besides his salary and pquisits, on which he might have lived very handsomely persons he converseth with speak scurrilously Council which considering his circumstances we let pass without