He told me he could not tell exactly to what degree the plantation was improved; but this he knew, that my partner was grown exceeding rich upon the enjoying his part of it; and that, to the best of his remembrance, he had heard that the king’s third of my part, which was, it seems, granted away to some other monastery or religious house, amounted to above two hundred moidores a year: that as to my being restored to a quiet possession of it, there was no question to be made of that, my partner being alive to witness my title, and my name being also enrolled in the register of the country; also he told me that the survivors of my two trustees were very fair, honest people, and very wealthy; and he believed I would not only have their assistance for putting me in possession, but would find a very considerable sum of money in their hands for my account, being the produce of the farm while their fathers held the trust, and before it was given up, as above; which, as he remembered, was for about twelve years.
Dat er geen twijfel aan de teruggave bestond, daar mijn compagnon nog leefde om mijn regt te bevestigen, en mijn naam ook op de lands registers ingeschreven was. Ook zeide hij mij, dat de opvolgers van mijne twee gevolmagtigden brave eerlijke lieden en zeer gegoed waren, en hij geloofde, dat zij mij niet alleen aan het bezit helpen, maar bovendien eene goede som gelds ter hand zouden stellen, zijnde de opbrengst tijdens de vorige gevolmagtigden het bestuurden, en vóór de in beslagneming, die voor ongeveer twaalf jaren voorgevallen was.