IF I had been well you should have heard from me before now , concerning a Request you made to Mr. Turner in October past ; which as he is pleased to relate to me , was , That he would tell me from you that I had wronged the Estate at Therlow of Two Thousand Pounds , and that you would prove it to be truth .

If you were subject to speak truth , or if I were guilty , your dogmatical assertion would startle me ; but I am so well assured of my own Integrity , and have been so much used to such nonninoes from you , and have so often baffled and disproved you concerning such like idle Reports , that all Persons not willing to be deceived , and that will hear with both Ears , look upon such like Reports from you now , but , as indeed they are , some of Mr. Bucks Stories ; so that I account your tongue no slander : But Mr. Turner conceives his Discretion in question by you for his imploying of me . Therefore for his Vindication , I shall once more invite you to a profitable Tryal of your Truth and my Fidelity : But by the way give me leave to ask you a few serious Questions . Was it discretion or honesty of you , that was intrusted , to receive my Accounts , to give me two or three Discharges of them , and for such considerable Sums , and never , as you say your self , so much as to examine them ? Was it discretion or honesty about two years after such Discharges , to charge me with 2387 l. 8 s. 〈◊〉 . and in about two years strong endevours ( with the ●ssistance of espoused Friends , and foul Play ●o boot ) could not prove two pence of that Charge against me ? Or if you could , Was it discretion in you to give me an ample general Discharge of all Matters , except 80 l. 09 s. 04 d. for Rent never denied you ? Were not you , only , guilty of part of that you charged me withall ? Was it discretion or honesty , about three or four years after all this to report that I had wronged the Estate of four or five thousand pound , and yet not to appear to so fair a profer as give and take , to make good your Assertion , or to vindicate your self ? Did you exhibit just Accounts , and yet sometimes want 2387 l. 08 s. 00 d. other times 4 or 5000 l. and now 2000 l. and could tell no better where to find any of the Sums then at these Rates ? Did you understand your self and my Accounts no better ? Do you understand either yet ? Do you not play the Lapwing all this while , and make the biggest noise farthest from the Nest ? Do you believe your self in this Report to Mr. Turner ; 't is a Lye that you have told often enough ? If you do , you must needs be willing to joyn this Issue , viz. You and I to chuse either of us a Man , to impower those two to chuse a third Person , all of honest Repute , and living within eight Miles of New-Market ; just half way for both of us to meet : Into those three Persons hands , you and I to deposite a Hundred Pounds a piece ; and if you can make it appear that I have wronged the Estate at Therlow of Two Thousand Pounds , so as two of those three shall subscribe it under their hands , then shall they award you all the money ; but if you fail of such Proof , then good reason it should be awarded me .

From the Three and Twentieth Day of July to the Second of August , will be my best Time to meet ; if any of those days suit your occasions , fix your Day , name your Man , and send me my Charge in particulars ; there is reason I should have a few daies to prepare my Defence , you having had so many years to prepare a Charge . If my Time suit not your Occasions , do you set a Time before Michaelmass next , I le set Harvest Occasions aside to meet you , as the best Harvest I can make ; and 't is pity but one of us should prove Faithful to that Trust , since you know I did make it appear in several particulars wherein your Accounts were not just ; to say nothing of your 〈◊〉 . All you can say will not signifie a jot , nothing but on these Terms , To meet