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The 22^d of y^e. last moneth I writ to You, and was in hopes long before this to have
had y^e good fortune of receiving an answer from you, especially considering what it was
about, and my Circumstances in all respects. But it may be You had a mind to
put 2 or 3 slights upon me, as yo^r son has lately done here: but ingratitude
is what I have been lately served with. It is now too apparent as I have allways
said y^t you designed Bartlet for yo^r Daughter: and if so, surely you can't with a
clear Conscience but own y^t You have done me y^e greatest injustice & affront
in y^e World. After y^e things is done After you have forced him upon her,
I shall ^{(God willing)} endeavour in y^e most publick place in yo^r County, and may be in y^e
Colony too, to make it appear how honestly & honorably I have dealt in y^t
affair, (in order to clear my reputaton) and how contrarily I have been
used. However slightly You may think of it, I think You ought [illegible]ely &
religiously, [amiably], & tenderly to wright all the Circumstances of it: and for
God sake Sr, doe it before it be too late. I desire to speak with yo^r self
the young Lady, yo^r son, & M^r Bartlet together, if You design him for yo^r
daughter: and I promise You to say, or doe nothing but what becomes a
Gentleman & one in my station. And if You please to comply w^th
this just & modest desire, I shall remain

Bartlet being so incouraged by you of late, even at yo^r own house, & my self to y^e
contrary, I must conclude y^t yo^r inviting of me from Glocester-Court, was only to
put a very high & gross abuse & affront upon me, & expose me to y^e world for a Cow-
ard, knave, or a Fool. The two first I thank God, neither yo^r self, nor any
of yo^r family hath made, nor ever shall make me either of y^m, much less
both: but y^e last Character I may chance to lie under; because I would not
believe what I have been so often told, y^t You was resolved yt I should not have yo^r,
dayg Daughter, you having allotted her for Bartlet. Nay I have been told several
other things, which, if you will marry yo^r Daughter to him, must be be-
lieved by me: for I don't doubt but I can prove you yt they may be proved in y^e most
publick manner by