To all whom it may concern.  
When Herennius was discarded by Augustus, out of his army, for his gross misdemeanours and dissolute and debauched carriage: begging still Augustus' favour to stay, if it might be, he used this deprecation: with what face shall I return home? what shall I say to my father? Augustus answered, Tell thy father, that I could not pleas thee.  
WHereas Mr Shepherd (late Usher of Merchant-Taylors School) hath caused a scurrilous paper to be printed and scattered abroad, whereby he would insinuate to the world, that he (with his companion) had suffered much wrong, as domineered over, and insufferably abused both by words and actions of Mr D. and Mr C. These are therefore to undeceiv those that desire not to be wilfully abused by giving them to understand, that Mr Shepherd complains of the wrong, when it is apparent to all that have heard both parties, that he is the man that hath only been abusive, and done the wrong: And this was manifestly proved before the company, before Mr Cranford, and others. Two things were objected against him, and clearly proved, for which he was judged not a fit man to have youth under his tuition.  

I. His exorbitancy, in point of manners: viz. Excessive following the pot, haunting Taverns and alehouses; and that in School-time.  
II. His insufficiency, in point of learning: Which appears in two instances under his own hand   
1. This, Prima Class is reddenda est rationem: Where, in five words, are no less than two solecisins or false Latins: And this was written by his own hand, upon deliberate thoughts; and publicly, beyond the bounds of modesty or shame, defended by him against Mr Cranford, at a public examination of the School, before the company, without the least colour of reason, or rule of Grammar.  
2. In a task given to the lower form against Easter last; where, in nine and twenty lines, the very schoolboys observed forty faults: One whereof was, that he gave them to form for a Verb Active, cono, conas, conat, &c. And for a Verb Passive, conor, conaris, &c.— But the whole, if any desire, may be seen under his own hand.  
3. In this sentence, facile est inventis addere, he taught his boys that facile was an Adverb; and that before the Examiners of the School, at a public examination.  
4. Before Mr Cranford and others he refused to give an account of this verse in Virgil. 
— Nulla salus bello; pacem, te poscimus omnes.   
Now how fit such a man may be either to govern children, in point of manners; or to teach them, in point of learning (notwithstanding all his mountebank-like quacking, and falls suggestions) a slender judgement may easily determine.  
Si populus vult decipi, decipiatur. Nec mendacii utilitas est diuturna, nec veritatis damnum diu nocet. RICHARDUS GUILIELMI.