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ware from his royale Highness which I lay claime to but you
would not as you then said accept thereof because you knew
it was mine the same I heare you have now possesst yourselfe
of I onely desire to know upon what tearmes you claime.
W. Pen. If the Lord Baltemore please I desire we may
first conclude our former discourse and then I shall shew
myselfe most willing and ready to give you all satisfaction
I can in that point.
Lord B. I am willing and have allways been ready to con-
clude the business of the bounds according as my Pattent
directs me.
W. Pen. I conceive that where there is a certaine degree
allowed of and generally received for the space of soe many
years to comence there and soe proceed by measure to the for-
tieth degree is the most equall way can be proposed and am
willing to be concluded thereby and hope the Lord Baltemore
may not be opposite to it and if that which is not the hundredth
part of my Lord Baltimore's interest may be ninety nine parts
of the hundred of mine nay possibly sine quo non that upon
which the rest wholy depends the Lord Baltemore I request will
not place my eagerness therein to the account of my disrespect
but of my interest and honest endeavours to hold a faire and
amicable correspondency with him for that I cannot imagine
that fifty or sixty yeares experience and general concurrence in
opinion could have any designe of favoure or prejudice either
to the Lord Baltemore or myselfe.
Lord B. The latitude of the Capes was taken by a sea
Quadrant which by noe artist will be held for exact and cer-
taine as an Instrument of six, eight or tenn foote diameter and
with such an instrument I desire to have the degree of forty
taken
W. Pen. I doe not apprehend that a sea quadrant can have
any prejudice for the Lord Baltemore more then for William
Pen.
Lord B. I say that it was more uncertaine the observation
formerly taken at the Capes by a Sea Quadrant then an obser-
vation now to be taken of the fortieth degree of Northern lati-
tude with such a fixt land Instrument as I have already made
mention of can be.
W. Pen. You say true the taking of thirty seaven then may
be as uncertaine as the taking of forty now, but I say an un-
certainety of soe long standing and soe generally received and
approved of by all persons when neither the instrument nor
observator could be imagined to have any design of interest or
prejudice for either of us is safer to depend on then to runn
into new errors and then if it fall within my Lord Baltemore's
bounds I hope he will be kind to me and if within mine I shall
approve myselfe as kind to the Lord Baltemore as I intended.
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