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You say, Page 81, that one of us said the Evening before, Tomorrow is Wednesday, and mark my Words, the Town of Springfield will be in the greatest Convulsion it was ever in since it was a Town. This we are all of us ignorant of: Indeed there was something said that we are ready to suppose the Story might arise from; but if so, 'tis exceedingly altered and added to. In the following Sentence you say, The same Gentleman, when the coming up of the Council the second Time was mentioned in Conversation, said, if they do, the Jail is the fittest Place for them, if you are not misinformed. This it seems you have charged on mere Hearsay, and the Report is without any Manner of Foundation in Fact that any of us know of And another Thing in the following Sentence you say you know, that another of us, soon after the taking of Mr Breck, could go where a Number that had been engaged in the Affair were together, and say▪ Well Gentlemen, we have had a fine Ordination to Day! But how, Sir, did you know it: There has been such a Report amongst th•se of your Party of Mr. W—ms of Long-Meadow; but he declares he knows nothing of it, and is as well satisfied that he never said any such Thing, or any Thing of such a Nature or Look, as he can be of a Negative: The Rev. Mr. Reynolds, that was with him at the Time when it is reported he said this, says also that he is confident there was no such Thing said, for he knows Mr. W—ms at ⟨p. 70⟩that Time, in all he said and did, appeared exceeding remote from any such Thing; and besides, particular Enquiry has been made of the Gentlemen that were present, and none of them can remember any Thing of that Nature. But how injurious is it in you. Sir, to labour to render our Names a Reproach▪ by publishing such Things to the World, on no other Foundation than mere Hearsay? Han't you lived long enough in the World to know that common Fame and flying Report is a most uncertain Thing? And would not you look upon that Minister very much to blame, that did not reprove the spreading abroad in a Neighbourhood, ill Reports that he hears of a Neighbour, only on such a Foundation? And surely then, Ministers of the Gospel themselves should not print and publish ill Reports, and that of Ministers of the Gospel, to render 'em ridiculous, on no other Ground!

You say, Page 81, that one of us said the Evening before, Tomorrow is Wednesday, and mark my Words, the Town of Springfield will be in the greatest Convulsion it was ever in since it was a Town. This we are all of us ignorant of: Indeed there was something said that we are ready to suppose the Story might arise from; but if so, 'tis exceedingly altered and added to. In the following Sentence you say, The same Gentleman, when the coming up of the Council the second Time was mention'd in Conversation, said, if they do, the Jail is the fittest Place for them, if you are not misinformed. This it seems you have charged on meer Hearsay, and the Report is without any Manner of Foundation in Fact that any of us know of And another Thing in the following Sentence you say you know, that another of us, soon after the taking of Mr Breck, could go where a Number that had been engaged in the Affair were together, and say Well Gentlemen, we have had a fine Ordination to Day! But how, Sir, did you know it: There has been such a Report amongst thse of your Party of Mr. W—ms of Long-Meadow; but he declares he knows nothing of it, and is as well satisfied that he never said any such Thing, or any Thing of such a Nature or Look, as he can be of a Negative: The Rev. Mr. Reynolds, that was with him at the Time when it is reported he said this, says also that he is confident there was no such Thing said, for he knows Mr. W—ms at