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the declared object of that defendant's said letter being
to prevent the Complainant from laying out any money at all
upon the premises or at least any thing beyond more than what might
be absolutely necessary for the thereof the defendant
humbly begs at a time when the Complainant had not laid out
the value of a single farthing any money whatever upon the same defendant
expressly desires and humbly hopes to be believed when he denies
that at that time or any subsequent time it ever has
been the view of this defendant as charged by the defendant
to deprive him the Complainant of the benefit of any large
sums of money laid out and expended by him in and about
the same. And forasmuch as that defendants then attempt
since in due course of law became a successful one to put
an end to the Complainants possession of the premises has been
charged in the upon him in the name of the said Complainant
as a gross fraud and imposition this defendant
denies that in in that in his committed or ever attempted intended any fraud at
all and⊞ ⊞being an antient Barrister, and having made the laws of this his country as well as of other countries the subject of his study for above these forty years, and having in that as well as other characters had the honour to be not wholly unknown to some of your Honours, he humbly hopes and believes Your Honours will
not easily believe him likely to attempt any gross fraud at least
in a case where as here there was nothing to be got by it and
where as here is had from the very first of had been using
his sincere though unfortunately ineffectual endeavours so to order
matters that there might be nothing to be got by it: and in
regard to the first of your Honours in particular this
Defendant humbly begs hence to submitt to him whether he
would not as easily regard himself as capable of practising
a gross fraud and imposition to the prejudice of this deft
as this deft of attempting any fraud or imposition to the prejudice
of any body else.
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