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k hoped would accrue to your felves; and defired him to 

 ' Return Publick Thanks : but at the fame interim of time 

 ' a Paper was prefented unto him from a Court of Ply- 

 * mouth, which was holded before I came home, 139 to Com- 

 ' mand a day of Humiliation thro' the whole Government, 

 ' becaufe of the frowns of God upon thofe Forces fent 

 ' under my Command, and the ill fuccefs we had, for want 

 ' of good conduct All which was caufed by thofe falfe 

 ' Reports which were pofted home by thofe ill affefted 

 ' Officers that were under my Conduct; efpecially one 

 k which your felves very well know, 140 who had the advan- 

 ' tage of being at home a Week before me, being lick of 

 ' Action, and wanting the advantage to be at the Bank, 141 

 ' which he every day was mindful of more than fighting the 

 ' Enemy in their own Country. After I came home, being 

 ' inform'd of a General Court at Plymouth,® and not forget- 

 ' ting my faithful Promife to you, and the duty I lay under, 

 1 1 went thither, where waiting upon them, I gave them an 

 ' account of my Eaftward tranfactions, and made them 

 k fenfible of the falfenefs of thofe reports that were pofted 

 ' to them by ill hands, and found fome fmall favourable 

 ' acceptance with them, fo far that I was credited. I pre- 

 ' fented your Thanks to them for their feafonable fending 



139 I find no record of this court, or referred to [p. 59] as having "faid it 



of any fuch appointment of a day of was time to go home ; " but I have not 



humiliation. "A publique day of hu- been able to identify him. 



miliation and faft " was appointed at 141 Strawberry Bank. 



the December court, to be held on the 142 Held 4 Nov., 1690. See record of 



" fecond Wednefday of January next." fome things done then on the next page 



44 « Doubtlefs the "Captain" before (note 143). \Plym. Col. Rec. vi : 252.] 

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