Santen speaks true in saying I have been covetous) it was in the management of this small revenue to the best advantage, @ had Mr Santen been as just as I have been careful, the King had not been in debt, as I had more in my pocket than now I have It may be true when I called for the King's money @ accompts from Mr Santen @ I met with unbecoming returns I might use some passionat expressions And as for my pinching Officers if hee means himself it was because he took it very ill that I would not allow him 7 or 800 pounds extravagant expenses, As for Fran. Barber I never spoke a word to him of salary in my life @ and leave it to the audit what acct hee gives of the Revenue of that County for three years @ on half To the Eleventh concerning the excise of Long Island fyc

What Mr Santen says concerning the offer of ,£52 for the excise p r a year may bee true I thought it very

unreasonable that the excise of three Countys should be farmed for soe little, therefore I fixed

upon Mr Vaughton @ Mr. Nicolls looking upon them to bee honest men @ agreed with them for £20 P P s @ what they could make over @ above they should deliver to Mr Santen That Dan. Whitehead offered me three pounds for my license it is false, or that I had <£10, from Nicolls @ Vaughton is likewise false as doth appear by Mr Nicolls testimony @ would by that of Mr Vaughton were hee here. Neither had I even any mony for licenses since I came into this Government except from Albany