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sensible that without the Lord Baltemore's good neighbourhood
and kindness to him, a great part of that Countrey soe given
him, would prove but a dead lump of earth, for without an
Inlett the same would be useless, and therefore he requested
the Lord Baltemore to be soe good and kind a neighbour as
to afford him but a back door for the improvement of that
which otherwise (without such a convenience) would signify
nothing to him; Adding this, that what was but the hundredth
part of the Lord Baltemore's interest, would be ninety nine parts
of the hundred of William Pen's. As this request of Mr Pen's
did not at all seem unreasonable to the Lord Baltemore, soe
was it not the Lord Baltemore's intentions to deny the said Pen
any neighbourly, and friendly kindness; and all that the Lord
Baltemore then replied was that he supposed Mr Pen did not
expect a speedy answer to his request; which Mr Pen answered
againe. he did not; then the Lord Baltemore proposed to Mr
Pen, that the Conference he had desired might be afore his
friends, and such of the Lord Baltemore's Council as were
then there; that it would be best, and safest to have it publick,
for that an affaire of that concerne to them both, being publicly
debated, would give most satisfaction to the Inhabitants of both
Provinces. Mr Pen then demanded how many persons the
Lord Baltemore would have present, the Lord Baltemore de-
sired that all the friends he had brought with him might be
present if he soe pleased, and that only six Gentleman of the
Lord Baltemore's Councill should be the rest. Mr Pen did, at
last, declare that what the Lord Baltemore desired was reason-
able, faire and honourable; then all persons were called in, and
the said Pen began his discourse which he continued for some
time, after which he pulls out a letter, and gives it the Ld
Baltemore, as the ground and foundacon of theire further dis-
course. The Lord Baltemore perceiving it to be a letter from
His Majestie, reads the same privately, afterwards, againe, to
the whole board; saying he found by that letter, that His Majes-
tie had been misinformed, and to make that out, the Lord Bal-
temore reads the bounds mentioned in his Pattent; after this
the Conference held for some howres, the which was taken in
short hand by the Clerk of the Assembly in Maryland, and the
next morning the Clerk brought it faire writt out; and the
same was read, approved and signed by the Gentlemen of the
Lord Baltemore's Councill. And had not the said Pen been
hastned and hurried away by many Quakers, that are Inhabit-
ants of Maryland to a meeting that day, Mr Pen had had a
Coppy of the said Conference with him; but loath he was to
stay soe long, and therefore requested the Lord Baltemore to
send him one, which accordingly has bin done. The Lord
Baltemore with the Gentlemen of his Council waited on Mr
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