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Mr. Dunkin argues in the improbability of Deft’s making such answers. But he had deferred it as long as he cod; and that he ansd without reference to his books & papers can not surprize anyone who observes the generality of those answers.
For other particrs (dates &c) he referred them to his writer whenever he gave the accot
Every man’s evid: is to be take most strongly agt himself, & the strongest of all is a man’s own confession.