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land, furnishes him with Money to come over into England, where together they frame eleven Articles full of untruths, malicious and bitter Expressions, imputing that to me wherein I never had any hand, Accusing me of matters never done at all, Heaping the faults of all both inferiour and superiour Ministers on my self, Taxing me for perswading, but not them for acting in or consenting unto sundry supposed irregularities, pleading for persons that never complained, and putting in for Crimes committed by me, what I complained of to others, as matter of damage to my self, taxing me with contempt of those Authorities, which at the time of exhibiting his Articles, he durst not say were lawful; Nor other then usurpations: and for transgressing Lawes which himself then pretended to be lookt upon but as waste Paper; The which Articles he stole into the House without reading, and contrary to his promise made to me, with an ugly intention to deprive me of such benefit, as the Act of Indempnity might have afforded me in case I had wanted it: He gets these Articles referred into Ireland, where he had