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

Hee (as hee hath all along done) does

@ and abusively of me @ y taking any notice of

e

to

all

gov. dongan's refort on the PROVINCE OF NEW- YORK.

Hee is likewise very troublesome to the present management of liis Mat 73 customs I desire that as soon as may bee I may know what his M&P 3 pleasure is should bee done with him, what ace* I have here given y Lopi of him is as moderate as may bee farr short of what I might have represented @ yet have spoken nothing but the truth. What I have done has not been out of malice, for I beare none to him rather pitty, but purely with an intent to >s

doe his Ma^ service

@ to secure his interest, as I doubt not will appear to yr L0PP

and

if

bee to be blamed for any tiling in the Series of this affair its for too much forbearance