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acct with @ pay into mee what he had received the preceeding week which was a method taken inthe time of S r Edmond Andros with Capt Dyer the then Collector upon the like occasion tho’ tliishad not the like eifect thro Mr Santens disobedience, for as hee did with all other orders hee did withthis hee took noe notice of it

As alsoe there were several orders of Council requiring him to have all his acts from the 25 th ofMarch to the 6 th of October ready for Mr Sprag to carry over audited with him who had agreed forhis passage in a ship @ kept her here on that purpose these two months past. But with all this he madenoe compliance pretending that by a letter from my Lord Treasurer hee was satisfied his aecomps werenot to be audited here that hee was only obliged to leave a duplicate with mee upon which the Councilupon sight of the letter agreed that it was reasonable for him to send his accomps home but thatnevertheless it was my duty to have them audited according to former instruction @ soe to continueto doe until I should have orders to the contrary from Mr. Blathwayt to whom my Lord Treasurer inhis letter refers it being otherwise impossible for me to answer this querySeeing soe many abuses done to his Maty @ finding fair means to be wholly ineffectual to themaking Mr. Santen discharge.his duty @ hee continuing still refractory @ disobedient to the severalorders of Council to him directed, the charge which y r Lop s have herewith was drawn up againsthim to which hee answered in such manner as your Lop 8 will see on perusal of the copy thereofherewith sent. Upon hearing of which charge and answer @ y e proofs thereto herewith likewisesent, thee council made their report to mee under their hands, in manner as your Lop 8 sees by thecopy thereof which you have likewise herewith wherein altho’ they positively say that he has beenan unfaithful serv ( to his Mat y in the management of his Revenue, yet I sent for him @ advised himto give in security for the ballance of the acct that by the audit he was found behind hand. An rifor his better carriage for the future which if hee did I promised to pass by all former faults @ makenoe complaint against him. I not only told him this myself but from time to time sent messages tohim to this effect sometimes by such of the council as were his particular friends sometimes by theministers @ often by the Secretary but all to noe purpose hee still continued obstinateAnd what returns hee made mee to these several instances of my kindness I shall not now troubleyour Lop 8 with

Nevertheless I forbare doing anything further against him till the expiration of the second auditproposing that then when I could know the whole amount of his debt I would at once doe my bestto secure the Kings concerns from sustaining any loss by himAt last hee brought in a book without being signed and said he could not lieve them neither,they being to bee sent over to Mr Blathwayt Whereupon we were forct to give him 3 weekslonger to get them copied @ then with great adoe he signed them @ brought in with them anacct called a general acct, an acct so extravagant that your Lor 8 have hardly seen the likeThen I pressing the auditors to make an end they desired that they might have his papersto compare with those books @ accomps he had delivered in, which by order of council heewas required to deliver to them. But he refusing as appears by the testimony of 3 of theauditors herewith sent, It was ordered that his said papers should be seized @ he suspendedfrom the sd office of collector @ receiver till his Maty 8 pleasure should be known thereon @hee taken into the Sheriffs custody and there remain till hee should give in such security asin the said orders is expressed as relation to the said orders had, may more at large appearUpon search of the Pap’s relating to his Maty 8 revenue I found a charge drawn up againstmyself with letters to his Maty Lord T’sear Lord Chancellor @ several other gentlemen stuftwith complaints against me and other p’sons which are wholly false

Indeed its true the poor gentleman since his coming here has been troubled with 3 or 4hypocondriack fitts, he was in one of them when his Mat y8 nomination of the Council came over