I have already taken care to have the broker's depositions taken before a lawyer of reputation and merit.

I deny giving him no satisfaction; and after that offer, I think there is no man of honour that would refuse signifying to him that as 'tis all he can desire, so, if he persists in doing me an injury, he may repent it.

You know how far 'tis proper to take this method, I say nothing of the uneasiness I am under, 'tis far beyond any expression; my obligation would be proportionable to any body that would deliver me from it, and I should not think it paid by all the services of my life." [Twickenham, June ( ?), 1721.] "Dear Sister, "Having this occasion, I would not omit writing, though I have received no answer to my two last.

The bearer is well acquainted with my affair, though not from me, till he mentioned it to me first, having heard it from those to whom Remond had told it with all the false colours he pleased to lay on.

I shewed him the formal commission I had to employ the money, and all the broker's testimonies taken before Delpeeke, with his certificate.