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of Justice; the Lord Deputy and Councel, General and Officers, Court Martial, nor by the special Court instituted on purpose for the deciding of such Cases as I was sued upon, And this before any admonition of any kind, There never having been any kind of conference with me about the matters in Question to this day, nor any other Communication of my Charge, but what my Adversaries are necessitated to make.

And all this was done upon so little cause or knowledg which the Knight had, that He upon further consideration, and when he exhibited his latter Articles, decli- four of the chief, and most particular of his first six; as also three the most notorious of the seven Instances he gave in the House after he had been a moneth instructed in the state of his quarrel; Now the cause of this Knight's engaging herein, was verily supposed to be meer Enuy, viz. For that I was admitted to that favour with the Lord Deputy, out of which himself was (for his detected falseness, and for his abused Oathes and Imprecations made to justifie the same) Ejected; as also malice, for that I took notice of an un-