Mr Santen taxes me with covetousness in not allowing sufficiently to the officers employed. gardly I have not been, but the revenue being soe small to bee as good a husband for the King as I could

Nig-

% having soe great a charge, I endeavored

I'm sure better than I ever was for myself.

And

truly I have been put soe to it to make things doe that what small pquisits I got, I have disburst,

not only soe, but have been forc't to engage my credit soe far as t'would goe

@

@ that not sparing to

pawn my plate for money to carry on the Kings affairs @ now I have sent some of it home by Mr

GOV.

Sprag

reimburse S Ben Bathurst what hee has paid for mee, r

to

soldiers

@ and to provide clothes for the

@ some things for my own use

Now My Lords before I proceed to answer the rest of your queries I will take occasion here to give your Lop satisfaction as to those articles Mr Santer has been pleased to draw up against Answer s

to

n,er 3

cha rgM

mee a copie whereof I herewith send for y r Lopp s perusal the scope of which being to c iial,g e me w j£ja mismanagement of his Mat ys affairs, I thought noe place more proper for ?

agamst me

my making appear the falsity of his accusation than here, wherein I have been soe long treating of man himself had soe large a share, which