unjust or groundless reflections on the Govt rnor that Gentleman has given an account to the Lord Bishop of Loudon how he was used by them I shall not trouble you with it so am to answer to accusations from persons I know not whom, of crimes I know nothing of & before Judges whom I am not to know for after all our efforts this matter is like to remain a Mystery to me without measures which nothing can induce me to take, and indeed without the repeated advice of these two worthy Gentlemen founded on their apprehension of the old maxim Miquid Mhcerelit I would have been silent.

I must begin by attesting the all discerning Searcher of Hearts of the sincerity of mine in my good wishes and best endeavours for propagating the true interests of our Holy Mother in whose communion ever since I was capable of a sober thought I have lived and by the blessing of God am resolved to die. In the next place I appeal to the evidence of all sober men Clergy or Laity for a testimony of my conduct in my station with relation to that interest but being to guess at the particular facts of which I am accused I can think of none that can so much as afford a pretence for such a representation unless it be the affairs of Jamaica Church, here and that must only be in the opinion of such as think that all laws human & divine are to be set aside when they come in competition with what they conceive to be the secular Interest of the Church.