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<p n="72">Reply</p>
<p n="73">Sir</p>
<p n="74">My Letter, extraordinary as it may seem to you, contains<lb></lb>
nothing but facts from your censure of it as impertinent, it is<lb></lb>
most evident to me that you know not the meaning of the Words,<lb></lb>
the contents of it as they relate to the Publick so do they nearly<lb></lb>
concern me and my Office, and are therefore in the only true<lb></lb>
Sense of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo27">epithet</rs>
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; pertinent to both.</p>
<p n="75">I shall not take upon meto vindicate either the Letter or<lb></lb>
myself against your charge of uncandidness, till I have better<lb></lb>
evidence of your discretion and manners than is contained<lb></lb>
in your answer; which thought brief is not so sententious as<lb></lb>
Saucy: To others I am able and ready to justify the contents<lb></lb>
of it, I therefore leave your to your own opinion of that and</p>
<p n="76">Your humble Servant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n76-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<p n="77"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo28">Hatton Street</rs>
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