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

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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 ?

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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

the mismanagement of the revenue in which this

answers follow distinctly with relation to such proofs as are herewith sent necessary for my vindication

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As to the first Article concerning a copartnership in a Trade to France Sfc For my justification @ making appear the falsehood of this article is the testimony of Mr John Sprag

@ Mr Gabriel Minvielle taken before Mr Swinton clerk of the Council hereunto annexed To the Second concerning a partnership in trade to Newfoundland

This is noe less true than the other as appears by Major Brokhelles testimony &c @ truly had I any such design I had not communicated with the Kings collector especially to a man of his disposition @ subject to soe many follies @ infirmity s that he was never capable of concealing his own

@ always made the debates of the Council (while he was a member of it) the subject matter of his Tavern discourse secrets from the very rabble of the town,