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upon him for an hundred pound ſterling, of which I got full and complete payment, and Chappel got the half. When I was at Dumfries, the day that Thomas Grier died, to whom I was owing an account of thirty-ſix pounds ſterling, Chappel my good-brother was then at London, and not being able of myſelf, (being but a bad writer) to get a diſcharge of the account, which I wanted exceedingly, I met accidently with Robert Boyd, a poor writer lad in Dumfries, I took him to Mrs. Cornock's, and gave him a bottle of wine, and told him, that I had paid Thomas Grier's account but wanted a diſcharge, and if he would help me to it, I would reward him: He fled away from me in a very great paſſion, ſaying "He would rather be hanged, but if I had a mind for theſe things, I had better wait till Chappel came home." This gave me great trouble, fearing, that what Chappel and I had done formerly was no ſecret, I followed Boyd to the ſtreet, made an apology that I was jeſting, commending him for his honeſty, and took him ſolemnly engaged, never to repeat what had paſſed. I ſent for my couſin Barnhewrie, your good-brother, who, with no difficulty, for a guinea and a half, undertook, and performed all that I wanted; and for a guinea more, made me up a diſcharge for two hundred pounds Scots, that I was owing to your Father-in-law, and his friend Mr. Muirhead; which diſcharge I gave toJohn