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6. To say (as this Comission doth) that my Comiss^rs
refused to comply with the said Letter, is hard for me to doe,
since the cheifest of them brought it in my favor: But the
truth is (if they say true) and Circumstances favor them) the
thing is improbable; for the Lord Baltemore would have had
them agreed to have taken an observation vpon the River
Delaware, when as the Kings Letter (Stateing my bounds as
they are Exprest in my Pattent) begins twelve miles above
New Castle vpon the West side of Delaware River, and soe to
run to the 43^th Degree of North Lattitude upon the said
River, w^ch makes it impossible, that the Lord Baltemore could
come within those Limitts, to take an observation or run a
line in pursuance of his Maj^ties Comands in the said Letter ;
Since takeing an observation on Delaware River (which say
they he prest) is a plaine Violation of it. They further say,
that they never refus'd, but prest the takeing of an observa-
tion according to his Majesties Letter, which is grounded on
the bounds of my Pattent, and when the Lord Baltemore and
my Agent had agreed to meete at New Castle, and to pro-
ceed according to his Maiesties Letter, tis true that my Agent,
came not, and as true (saith he) that the reason was the Lord
Baltemore, call'd ifnediately at Chichister, als Marcus Hook,
as he went to New Castle, and forbad the Inhabitants to pay
me quit rent, and named the place by a new name, before any
line was runn, or any observation agreed; which being a
declared Breach of the Kings Comands, and theire treaty in
the opinion of my Agent, he refus'd to meete the next day
about a matter the Lord Baltemore had in such a manner
already determined.
7. But what fault soever they were in, sure I am, that,
before an observation was agreed or any Line was runn, I
came in and suddenly after waiteing upon the Lord Baltemore,
I presented him with another letter from his Maiestie, which
he was soe farr from complying with, that, he lookt vpon the
King as mistaken, and sett his Pattent in direct opposition ;
and to this day would never heare of complying with it in
either of the two points it related to; That is to say, his
haveing but two degrees, and that begining them at Watkins
point, he should admeasure them at Sixty Miles to a degree,
to terminate the North Bounds of his Province. Now, in my
opinion, it was not propper to ground his Proceedings vpon a
former Letter, in neglect of a latter Advice, and Comand from
his Maiestie. Nor doth it looke very iust to make the Caution
or Neglect of an Agent, in the Absence of his Principall, a
reason to proceed ag^st his Principal, when present with other
Instructions, without due regard had to him, or his Allegations.
And I must say, that at New Castle, when I prest the Lord

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