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this Province that it was not the ambition of Government or
Dominion that flatter'd him into these parts of the world but
meerely to secure his owne that moved him to come into this
Country which since it was his fortune he well enough liked
and shall study all wayes and meanes imaginable to approve
himselfe a good Neighbor he then produces a letter from the
King to the Lord Baltemore as a foundation or introduction to
their further discourse.
His Ldp having read the letter answers vizt:
Ld Baltemore His Majestie's letter I receive with all respect
and with that sense of my duty as becomes me but by the
purport of this letter I conceive His Majesty hath received
some misinformation for the cleering of which I have here not
only a coppy of mine but a Transcript of your Pattent by both
which we must be governed I having for my northern Bounds
the fortieth degree of northern latitude which by your Pattent
is your Southern bounds as Watkins point is mine.
His Lopp then reads the Bounds in the Pattent.
W. Pen Esqre By my Petition to the King I craved five de-
grees northward the Lords told me it was a great deale of land
that my Lord Baltemore had but two to which I replyed that the
difference was vastly great on my Lord Baltemore's side as for
its position being richly accomodated with the Bay on both
sides and severall faire navigable rivers and Creeks &c. and
my reason for soe great a quantity was not out of a covetous
humour but only that I might reach the lake of Cannada for the
conveniency of an inlett to my Province to which they gave
their opinion that I should be answerd to that by having a
passage in this Bay but if the Lord Baltemore will stand to and
abide by the literall sense of his Pattent, then I think we must
lay aside the King's letter untill we shall have first considered
the grants and reasons of our Pattents—If the Lord Baltemore
will take thirty seaven and half degrees for thirty eight and
soe runn on to forty being halfe a degree of difference I think
it is considerable and had I covetted to have taken my
comencement from Watkins Point as the Lord Baltemore is
allowed I had possibly gained more considerably but confident
that he would not endeavor to deprive me of anything that
might conduce to my benefitt without any great prejudice to
himselfe I was contented to begin where the Lord Baltemore
ended being firmly and stedfastly resolved to approve myself
his good neighbor and give him the right hand of fellowship
and it shall be the Lord Baltemore's fault and not mine if there
be not as faire and amicable Correspondence between the two
Provinces as between any united Provinces whatsoever but if
His Majestie's letter must be waved we must proceed moderately
to argue the grounds and reasons of our Pattents and waite
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