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tion: 344 but his Excellency the Governour, the Honoura- 

 ble Council and Houfe of Reprefentatives law caufe to 

 Clear him, and gave him Thanks for his good Service 

 done. 345 



;i44 Church's language here might 

 almoft fuggeft that fome attempt had 

 been made to bring him to a capital 

 trial for alleged malfeafance in the mat- 

 ter at Pajfamaquoddy (p. 157). But I 

 find no evidence of any thing of the fort. 



345 The original edition of 1716 gives 

 evidence of that " cutting the coat 

 according to the cloth," which was not 

 unulual in books of that time, and 

 which is not wholly unknown now. In 

 the endeavor to come out even at the 

 end of a page and of a fignature, the 



laft two pages are let in type of fmaller 

 fize than the reft of the volume, the 

 "fpaces" are made thinner, and 51 

 lines are crowded into a page whole 

 meafure has been 42. In this procefs 

 of compreffion. the MSS. doubtlefs fuf- 

 fered fomewhat; and, could we recover 

 the laft page from which Green's ccm- 

 politors worked, we fhould be quite 

 likely to find one or two doling re- 

 marks from the blunt yet courtly old 

 warrior, which the inexorable demands 

 of the " form " excluded. 



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