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voured to supplant me in my Employments; and the intimate Confederate of the Grand Libellers was the same. Major Ormsby, my most bitter and implacable Foe, was also of that profession. Col. Lawrence, whom in Conscience and sincerity, I opposed in a Suit of his for Lands, was the same. Sands and Winckworth mentioned & conjured up by Sir Hierom in the Parliament, all the same. Lewis Smith, that busie Bee, or rather Waspe, of a Surveyor was the same; M. Alden the Solicitor of the cause, the same. As for M. Worsly, I have known him so many things, and so apt to be any thing that will make him great; That I shall describe his Religion no further then by referring you to the Preface before his Folio Pamphlet, intituled in very big Letters, The Advocate. That frippery and Longlane of thredbare notions concerning Trade. I could name many others as Sectaries at large, which I omit, as not able to name their Sect in particular; onely Flower was no Anabaptist, because of his too loose Conversation for any Church at all; wherefore, they made him a hewer of Wood for the Work.

In confirmation of this truth, I fur-