Your humble servant,
Richard Baxter.
June 20, 1662.
P. S. I have the more need of your justice in this case, because my distance denieth me access to those that have received these misreports, and because any public vindication of myself, whatever is said of me, is taken as an unsufferable crime, and therefore I am utterly incapable of vindicating my innocency, or remedying their mistakes.
"To the reverend and much honoured Dr. Earles,
Dean of Westminster, &c. These."
DR EARLE, IN REPLY.
Hampton-Court, June 23.
"Sir,