Letter 4164

Oct: 1… I send this to know yr finall Answer for if you refuse to swear [tellingly?] I will preferr a bill in Chancery against you & send you a sub para yt shall compell you to do it. How guilty must you appear yt decline swearing ye Truth of an Action you were Concernd in, you tell me I am discom= pos’d at being in ye [plais?] & dont reflect what yr own part is there he Calls you Dr Guiacum an opinionated Chimicall Dr a great pretender to cure Lunaticks & Claps, for (sayes he) this is a Dr. for ye purpose positive Ignorant & easie to be impos’d on one yt having a Long storm in his own pate solidly beleives he can cure it in other mens. He was first Apothecary of a phisick garden but hapning to cure ye son of a great statesman yt had crack’d his Brains with studying to out do his father in out witting ye french: Councills got Himselfe into mony & reputation & is now forsooth president of ye. Insanery. He has picturd you to like yt I am apt to think [Dursey?] & you very well acquainted & perhaps it was from you he had ye Relation of ye distration of Yr. Hu[le?]: sert: A: Ashe