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be in Print, and to be heard publicly as a Preacher and Speech-maker) I here insert, with an accompt of the interruptions and interlocutions happening therein, all as neer his very words, as I my self and other friends could recollect them.

Here followes Sir Hierom Sanky's Speech.

Mr. Speaker,

You have heard here a long starcht studied Speech, I say a starcht studied Speech, M. Speaker; The Preface.There has been a great deal of Rhetorique, I say, a great deal of Rhetorique; But I will prove my Charge, I will make it good, M. Speaker, from the Front to the Rear, Front, Flanck and Rear, M. Speaker, that I will; I h'ant much Rhetoric; But I have my Papers here, I have fetcht 'em here from Dublin, here they be in my hand, I have 'em ready, M. Speaker. here be foul things, I will prove 'em, I'le warrant I'le prove them, Mr. Speaker. He opens the matter in general.He sayes, M. Speaker, he has not taken Bribes; Not Bribes? O strange, really if he h'ant taken Bribes, then he hath taken nothing. Not Bribes?